Proverbs 9:4 · JPS 1917
'Whoso is thoughtless, let him turn in hither'; as for him that lacketh understanding, she saith to him:
Who acts: Whoso, you, him, Wisdom · What happens: be, let, turn in, lack, say · To what, where: him, understanding · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Proverbs 9:4 · 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 (Whoso, you, him, Wisdom), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 2 | Whoso | whoso | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 thoughtless | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thoughtless | cop |
| 4 | thoughtless | thoughtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 let | csubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 turn | compound:prt |
| 10 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 8 turn | advmod |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 saith | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 as | fixed |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saith | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lacketh | nsubj |
| 17 | lacketh | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 him | acl:relcl |
| 18 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lacketh | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 him | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saith | nsubj |
| 21 | saith | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saith | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 saith | 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 | is | present | Whoso | thoughtless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn in | infinitive | him = he not said here | hither property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lack | present | understanding | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | Wisdom | him = he | as him = he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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
מִי־פֶ֭תִי יָסֻ֣ר הֵ֑נָּה חֲסַר־לֵ֝֗ב אָ֣מְרָה לּֽוֹ׃
Proverbs 9:4: 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:243 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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