Proverbs 21:9 · JPS 1917
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than in a house in common with a contentious woman.
What happens: be, dwell · To what, where: corner
This is Proverbs 21:9 · 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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 better | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 dwell | mark |
| 5 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 better | csubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 corner | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 corner | det |
| 8 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dwell | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 housetop | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 housetop | det |
| 11 | housetop | housetop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 corner | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 house | punct |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 better | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 common | case |
| 18 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | nmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 woman | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 21 | contentious | contentious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 common | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | 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 | than a house in common; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dwell | to-infinitive | a corner of the housetop | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location |
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
ט֗וֹב לָשֶׁ֥בֶת עַל־פִּנַּת־גָּ֑ג מֵאֵ֥שֶׁת מִ֝דְיָנִ֗ים וּבֵ֥ית חָֽבֶר׃
Proverbs 21:9: 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:597 of Mova's parse database.
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