Proverbs 9:17 · JPS 1917
'Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.'
Who acts: Stolen waters, bread · What happens: steal, be, eat · To what, where: bread, secret
This is Proverbs 9:17 · 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 (Stolen waters, bread), 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 | _ | 5 sweet | punct |
| 2 | Stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 waters | amod |
| 3 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sweet | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sweet | cop |
| 5 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pleasant | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pleasant | cc |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pleasant | nsubj |
| 9 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bread | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 secret | case |
| 11 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eaten | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pleasant | cop |
| 13 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sweet | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sweet | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sweet | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | Stolen waters | sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | participle | bread not said here | secret | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | bread | pleasant 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
מַֽיִם־גְּנוּבִ֥ים יִמְתָּ֑קוּ וְלֶ֖חֶם סְתָרִ֣ים יִנְעָֽם׃
Proverbs 9:17: 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:256 of Mova's parse database.
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