Proverbs 17:9 · JPS 1917
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that harpeth on a matter estrangeth a familiar friend.
Who acts: speech · What happens: cover, seek, harp, estrange · To what, where: transgression, love, matter, familiar friend
This is Proverbs 17:9 · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seeketh | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 covereth | nsubj |
| 3 | covereth | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 He | acl:relcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 transgression | det |
| 5 | transgression | transgression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 covereth | obj |
| 6 | seeketh | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seeketh | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 estrangeth | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 estrangeth | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 estrangeth | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 harpeth | nsubj |
| 12 | harpeth | harp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 he | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 matter | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 matter | det |
| 15 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 harpeth | obl |
| 16 | estrangeth | estrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 seeketh | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 friend | det |
| 18 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 friend | amod |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 estrangeth | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seeketh | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present | a transgression | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme transgression=Destination | |||||
| 2 | seek | present | speech | love | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | ||||
| 3 | harp | present | a matter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | estrange | present | speech | a familiar friend | 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
מְֽכַסֶּה־פֶּ֭שַׁע מְבַקֵּ֣שׁ אַהֲבָ֑ה וְשֹׁנֶ֥ה בְ֝דָבָ֗ר מַפְרִ֥יד אַלּֽוּף׃
Proverbs 17:9: 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:485 of Mova's parse database.
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