Proverbs 17:16 · JPS 1917
Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, seeing he hath no understanding?
Who acts: price · What happens: be, buy, have · To what, where: wisdom, understanding
This is Proverbs 17:16 · 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 (price), 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 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 is | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 price | det |
| 5 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 price | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fool | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fool | det |
| 11 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 price | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 buy | mark |
| 13 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fool | acl |
| 14 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buy | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seeing | punct |
| 16 | seeing | see | SCONJ | _ | 18 hath | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hath | nsubj |
| 18 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 understanding | det |
| 20 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hath | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a price in the hand of a fool | there | wherefore property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | a price in the hand of a fool not said here | wisdom | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | price | no understanding | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=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
לָמָּה־זֶּ֣ה מְחִ֣יר בְּיַד־כְּסִ֑יל לִקְנ֖וֹת חָכְמָ֣ה וְלֶב־אָֽיִן׃
Proverbs 17:16: 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:492 of Mova's parse database.
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