Proverbs 17:14 · JPS 1917
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention, before the quarrel break out.
Who acts: one, quarrel · What happens: let out, leave off, break out, begin · To what, where: water, contention, strife
This is Proverbs 17:14 · 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 (one, quarrel), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 beginning | det |
| 2 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 strife | case |
| 4 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beginning | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 letteth | mark |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 letteth | advmod |
| 8 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 letteth | nsubj |
| 9 | letteth | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 is | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 letteth | compound:prt |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 letteth | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 leave | punct |
| 13 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 14 leave | advmod |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 is | parataxis |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 leave | compound:prt |
| 16 | contention | contention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 break | punct |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 break | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 quarrel | det |
| 20 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 break | nsubj |
| 21 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Sub VerbForm=Fin | 14 leave | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 break | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | 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 | let out | present | one | water | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave off | infinitive | contention | therefore property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contention=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break out | present | the quarrel | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | begin | strife | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
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
פּ֣וֹטֵֽר מַ֭יִם רֵאשִׁ֣ית מָד֑וֹן וְלִפְנֵ֥י הִ֝תְגַּלַּ֗ע הָרִ֥יב נְטֽוֹשׁ׃
Proverbs 17:14: 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:490 of Mova's parse database.
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