Proverbs 12:9 · JPS 1917

Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and hath a servant, than he that playeth the man of rank, and lacketh bread.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, esteem, have, play, lack · To what, where: servant, man, bread

This is Proverbs 12:9 · 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 (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	Better	better	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Better	cop
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Better	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 esteemed	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 esteemed	aux:pass
6	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	7 esteemed	advmod
7	esteemed	esteem	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 he	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hath	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hath	cc
10	hath	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 esteemed	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 servant	det
12	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hath	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 he	punct
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 he	case
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Better	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 playeth	nsubj
17	playeth	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 he	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 playeth	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 rank	case
21	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lacketh	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lacketh	cc
24	lacketh	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 playeth	conj
25	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lacketh	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Better	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	man		than wicked; better property	tree rules
2	esteem	present · passive			lightly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	have	present		a servant		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient
4	play	present		the man of rank		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
5	lack	present		bread		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

ט֣וֹב נִ֭קְלֶה וְעֶ֣בֶד ל֑וֹ מִ֝מְּתַכַּבֵּ֗ד וַחֲסַר־לָֽחֶם׃

Proverbs 12:9: 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:330 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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