Proverbs 21:6 · JPS 1917

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death.

Who acts: getting, thoughts, lying tongue · What happens: lie, be, drive, seek, get · To what, where: vapour, thoughts, death, treasures

This is Proverbs 21:6 · 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 (getting, thoughts, lying tongue), 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 getting	det
2	getting	getting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vapour	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 treasures	case
4	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 getting	nmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 tongue	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tongue	det
7	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 tongue	amod
8	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 getting	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 vapour	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 vapour	det
11	vapour	vapour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 vapour	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	12 driven	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fro	cc
15	fro	fro	ADV	_	13 to	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 seek	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seek	nsubj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 seek	nsubj
19	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 they	acl:relcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seek	obj
21	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 vapour	conj
22	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seek	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 vapour	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lie	gerund			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the getting of treasures by a lying tongue	a vapour	tree rules
3	drive	participle		a vapour not said here	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	seek	present		thoughts = thought	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	seek	present	thoughts = thought	death	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme
6	get		a lying tongue	treasures	nom getting «act transitive»: of=patient by=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

פֹּ֣עַל א֭וֹצָרוֹת בִּלְשׁ֣וֹן שָׁ֑קֶר הֶ֥בֶל נִ֝דָּ֗ף מְבַקְשֵׁי־מָֽוֶת׃

Proverbs 21:6: 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:594 of Mova's parse database.

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