Proverbs 16:16 · JPS 1917
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.
What happens: be, get · To what, where: wisdom, understanding
This is Proverbs 16:16 · 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: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 better | advmod |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 better | expl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 better | csubj |
| 8 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| 12 | yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 21 chosen | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 chosen | csubj |
| 16 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 chosen | cop |
| 18 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 21 chosen | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 chosen | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 chosen | aux:pass |
| 21 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 better | parataxis |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 silver | case |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chosen | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | wisdom | than gold | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | understanding | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer understanding=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | present · passive | than silver; choose 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
קְֽנֹה־חָכְמָ֗ה מַה־טּ֥וֹב מֵחָר֑וּץ וּקְנ֥וֹת בִּ֝ינָ֗ה נִבְחָ֥ר מִכָּֽסֶף׃
Proverbs 16:16: 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:459 of Mova's parse database.
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