Proverbs 17:12 · JPS 1917
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Who acts: you, bear · What happens: let, rob, meet · To what, where: bear, whelps, man
This is Proverbs 17:12 · 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 (you, bear), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bear | acl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 whelps | nmod:poss |
| 7 | whelps | whelp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 robbed | obl |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fool | punct |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 15 fool | cc |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 rather | fixed |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fool | det |
| 15 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 folly | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 folly | nmod:poss |
| 18 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fool | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | a bear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rob | participle | a bear not said here | messenger's whelps | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | meet | infinitive | a bear not said here | a man rather a fool in speech's folly | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
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
פָּג֬וֹשׁ דֹּ֣ב שַׁכּ֣וּל בְּאִ֑ישׁ וְאַל־כְּ֝סִ֗יל בְּאִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃
Proverbs 17:12: 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:488 of Mova's parse database.
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