Proverbs 8:25 · JPS 1917
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;
What happens: settle, bring · To what, where: mountains, I
This is Proverbs 8:25 · 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: 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 settled | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mountains | det |
| 3 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 settled | aux:pass |
| 5 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 brought | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 settled | punct |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 brought | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hills | det |
| 9 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brought | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | aux:pass |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 brought | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past · passive | the mountains | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | |||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | I | the hills obl; forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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
בְּטֶ֣רֶם הָרִ֣ים הָטְבָּ֑עוּ לִפְנֵ֖י גְבָע֣וֹת חוֹלָֽלְתִּי׃
Proverbs 8:25: 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:228 of Mova's parse database.
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