Proverbs 17:11 · JPS 1917
A rebellious man seeketh only evil; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
Who acts: rebellious man · What happens: seek, send · To what, where: evil, cruel messenger
This is Proverbs 17:11 · 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 (rebellious man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | rebellious | rebellious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeketh | nsubj |
| 4 | seeketh | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 evil | advmod |
| 6 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeketh | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 8 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 14 sent | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 messenger | det |
| 10 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 messenger | amod |
| 11 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sent | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sent | aux:pass |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seeketh | parataxis |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sent | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeketh | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present | a rebellious man | evil | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | shall · passive | a cruel messenger | against speech; therefore property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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
אַךְ־מְרִ֥י יְבַקֶּשׁ־רָ֑ע וּמַלְאָ֥ךְ אַ֝כְזָרִ֗י יְשֻׁלַּח־בּֽוֹ׃
Proverbs 17:11: 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:487 of Mova's parse database.
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