Proverbs 17:4 · JPS 1917
A evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; and a liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.
Who acts: evil doer, liar · What happens: give · To what, where: heed, wicked lips, ear, mischievous tongue
This is Proverbs 17:4 · 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 (evil doer, liar), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 doer | det |
| 2 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doer | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 evil | punct |
| 4 | doer | doer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 giveth | nsubj |
| 5 | giveth | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 giveth | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 lips | case |
| 8 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lips | amod |
| 9 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 giveth | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 giveth | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 giveth | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 liar | det |
| 13 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 giveth | nsubj |
| 14 | giveth | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 giveth | conj |
| 15 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 giveth | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 tongue | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tongue | det |
| 18 | mischievous | mischievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tongue | amod |
| 19 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 giveth | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 giveth | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
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- act
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | a evil doer | heed | wicked lips | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to lip=Recipient | |||
| 2 | give | present | a liar | ear | a mischievous tongue | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to tongue=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
מֵ֭רַע מַקְשִׁ֣יב עַל־שְׂפַת־אָ֑וֶן שֶׁ֥קֶר מֵ֝זִין עַל־לְשׁ֥וֹן הַוֺּֽת׃
Proverbs 17:4: 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:480 of Mova's parse database.
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