Proverbs 18:19 · JPS 1917
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Who acts: brother, contentions, city · What happens: offend, be, win, contend · To what, where: brother
This is Proverbs 18:19 · 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 (brother, contentions, city), 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 | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 harder | nsubj |
| 3 | offended | offend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 brother | acl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 harder | cop |
| 5 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 won | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 won | aux:pass |
| 8 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 harder | xcomp |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 city | amod |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 harder | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 bars | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bars | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 contentions | nmod:poss |
| 16 | contentions | contention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bars | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bars | cop |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 bars | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bars | det |
| 20 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 harder | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 castle | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bars | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 harder | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offend | participle | a brother not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a brother | than a strong city; hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | win | to-infinitive · passive | a brother not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | is | present | city's contentions | like the bars; of a castle | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | contend | city | nom contention «communication intransitive»: poss=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
אָ֗ח נִפְשָׁ֥ע מִקִּרְיַת־עֹ֑ז וּ֝מִדְיָנִ֗ים כִּבְרִ֥יחַ אַרְמֽוֹן׃
Proverbs 18:19: 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:523 of Mova's parse database.
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