Proverbs 21:8 · JPS 1917
The way of man is froward and strange; but as for the pure, his work is right.
Who acts: way, work, man · What happens: be, work
This is Proverbs 21:8 · 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 (way, work, man), 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 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 froward | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 man | case |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 way | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 froward | cop |
| 6 | froward | froward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 strange | cc |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 froward | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 right | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 right | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 pure | case |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pure | det |
| 14 | pure | pure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 right | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 right | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 work | nmod:poss |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 right | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 right | cop |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 froward | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 froward | 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 | is | present | the way of man | froward property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the way of man not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | man's work | as the pure; right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | work | man | nom work «act 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
הֲפַכְפַּ֬ךְ דֶּ֣רֶךְ אִ֣ישׁ וָזָ֑ר וְ֝זַ֗ךְ יָשָׁ֥ר פָּעֳלֽוֹ׃
Proverbs 21:8: 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:596 of Mova's parse database.
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