Proverbs 6:30 · JPS 1917
Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
Who acts: Men, man · What happens: not despise, steal, satisfy, be · To what, where: thief, soul
This is Proverbs 6:30 · 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 (Men, man), 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 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 despise | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 despise | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 despise | advmod |
| 4 | despise | despise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thief | det |
| 6 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 despise | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 steal | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 steal | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 steal | nsubj |
| 10 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Sub Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 despise | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 satisfy | mark |
| 12 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 steal | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 soul | nmod:poss |
| 14 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 satisfy | obj |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 hungry | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hungry | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hungry | cop |
| 18 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 steal | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 despise | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not despise | present · do-support | Men | a thief | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thief=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | steal a condition, not said to happen | present | man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | satisfy | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's soul | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | present | man | hungry 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
לֹא־יָב֣וּזוּ לַ֭גַּנָּב כִּ֣י יִגְנ֑וֹב לְמַלֵּ֥א נַ֝פְשׁ֗וֹ כִּ֣י יִרְעָֽב׃
Proverbs 6:30: 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:171 of Mova's parse database.
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