Proverbs 23:6 · JPS 1917
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainties;
Who acts: thou, bread · What happens: not eat, have, desire · To what, where: bread, evil eye, dainties
This is Proverbs 23:6 · 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 (thou, bread), 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 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Eat | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Eat | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bread | det |
| 5 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Eat | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bread | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hath | nsubj |
| 9 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bread | acl:relcl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 eye | det |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eye | amod |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hath | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 desire | punct |
| 14 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 desire | cc |
| 15 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Eat | conj |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 desire | nsubj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dainties | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dainties | dainty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 desire | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Eat | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | infinitive | thou | the bread of eagle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the bread of eagle | a evil eye | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 3 | desire | present | thou | eagle's dainties | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dainty=Theme |
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
אַל־תִּלְחַ֗ם אֶת־לֶ֭חֶם רַ֣ע עָ֑יִן וְאַל־תִּ֝תְאָ֗יו לְמַטְעַמֹּתָֽיו׃
Proverbs 23:6: 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:654 of Mova's parse database.
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