Proverbs 15:14 · JPS 1917
The heart of him that hath discernment seeketh knowledge; but the mouth of fools feedeth on folly.
Who acts: heart, mouth · What happens: have, seek, feed · To what, where: discernment, knowledge
This is Proverbs 15:14 · 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 (heart, mouth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 heart | det |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeketh | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 hath | nsubj |
| 6 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 heart | acl:relcl |
| 7 | discernment | discernment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hath | obj |
| 8 | seeketh | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeketh | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 feedeth | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 feedeth | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mouth | det |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feedeth | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fools | case |
| 15 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mouth | nmod |
| 16 | feedeth | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 seeketh | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 folly | case |
| 18 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feedeth | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seeketh | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the heart of spirit | discernment | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discernment=Patient | ||||
| 2 | seek | present | the heart of spirit | knowledge | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feed | present | the mouth of fools | on folly | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on folly=Patient |
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
לֵ֣ב נָ֭בוֹן יְבַקֶּשׁ־דָּ֑עַת וּפִ֥י כְ֝סִילִ֗ים יִרְעֶ֥ה אִוֶּֽלֶת׃
Proverbs 15:14: 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:424 of Mova's parse database.
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