Proverbs 5:3 · JPS 1917
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Who acts: lips, mouth · What happens: drop, be · To what, where: honey
This is Proverbs 5:3 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lips, mouth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 lips | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lips | det |
| 3 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drop | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 woman | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lips | nmod |
| 8 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drop | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smoother | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 smoother | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smoother | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 smoother | cop |
| 15 | smoother | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 drop | conj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 oil | case |
| 17 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smoother | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 drop | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | the lips of a strange woman | honey | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | woman's mouth | than oil; smooth property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The Hebrew of this verse
כִּ֤י נֹ֣פֶת תִּ֭טֹּפְנָה שִׂפְתֵ֣י זָרָ֑ה וְחָלָ֖ק מִשֶּׁ֣מֶן חִכָּֽהּ׃
Proverbs 5:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PRO:120 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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