Proverbs 17:8 · JPS 1917
A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it; whithersoever he turneth, he prospereth.
Who acts: gift, speech · What happens: be, have, turn, prosper · To what, where: eyes, gift
This is Proverbs 17:8 · 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 (gift, speech), 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 | 2 gift | det |
| 2 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stone | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stone | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 6 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stone | amod |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eyes | det |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stone | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 hath | nsubj |
| 14 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 him | acl:relcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hath | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 prospereth | punct |
| 17 | whithersoever | whithersoever | ADV | _ | 19 turneth | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turneth | nsubj |
| 19 | turneth | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 prospereth | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 prospereth | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 prospereth | nsubj |
| 22 | prospereth | prosper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stone | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stone | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a gift | the eyes of speech | as a precious stone | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | gift | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 3 | turn | present | speech | whithersoever property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | prosper | present | speech | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
אֶֽבֶן־חֵ֣ן הַ֭שֹּׁחַד בְּעֵינֵ֣י בְעָלָ֑יו אֶֽל־כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֖ר יִפְנֶ֣ה יַשְׂכִּֽיל׃
Proverbs 17:8: 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:484 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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