Proverbs 17:22 · JPS 1917
A merry heart is a good medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Who acts: merry heart, broken spirit · What happens: be, break, dry · To what, where: good medicine, bones
This is Proverbs 17:22 · 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 (merry heart, broken spirit), 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 heart | det |
| 2 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heart | amod |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 medicine | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 medicine | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 medicine | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 medicine | amod |
| 7 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 drieth | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 drieth | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 spirit | det |
| 11 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 spirit | amod |
| 12 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drieth | nsubj |
| 13 | drieth | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 medicine | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bones | det |
| 15 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drieth | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 medicine | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a merry heart | a good medicine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | dry | present | a broken spirit | the bones | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bone=Result |
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
לֵ֣ב שָׂ֭מֵחַ יֵיטִ֣ב גֵּהָ֑ה וְר֥וּחַ נְ֝כֵאָ֗ה תְּיַבֶּשׁ־גָּֽרֶם׃
Proverbs 17:22: 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:498 of Mova's parse database.
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