Proverbs 8:29 · JPS 1917

When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not transgress His commandment, when He appointed the foundations of the earth;

Who acts: earth, waters · What happens: give, not transgress, appoint, decree, command · To what, where: decree, sea, commandment, foundations · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Proverbs 8:29 · 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 (earth, waters), 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	When	when	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
7	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 decree	nmod:poss
8	decree	decree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 transgress	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 transgress	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 waters	det
12	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 transgress	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 transgress	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 transgress	advmod
15	transgress	transgress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 decree	acl
16	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 commandment	nmod:poss
17	commandment	commandment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 transgress	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 appointed	punct
19	when	when	ADV	_	21 appointed	advmod
20	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 appointed	nsubj
21	appointed	appoint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 foundations	det
23	foundations	foundation	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 appointed	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 earth	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 earth	det
26	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 foundations	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

form: fragment
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=frag, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	past	earth	earth's decree	the sea	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent decree=Theme to sea=Recipient
2	not transgress	should	the waters	earth's commandment		tree rules
3	appoint	past	earth	the foundations of the earth		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foundation=Theme
4	decree		earth			nom decree «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
5	command		earth			nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

בְּשׂ֘וּמ֤וֹ לַיָּ֨ם ׀ חֻקּ֗וֹ וּ֭מַיִם לֹ֣א יַֽעַבְרוּ־פִ֑יו בְּ֝חוּק֗וֹ מ֣וֹסְדֵי אָֽרֶץ׃

Proverbs 8:29: 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:232 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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