Proverbs 23:9 · JPS 1917
Speak not in the ears of a fool; for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Who acts: you, eagle, thy · What happens: not speak, despise, word · To what, where: ears, wisdom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Proverbs 23:9 · 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: who acts (you, eagle, thy), 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 | Speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Speak | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 ears | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ears | det |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Speak | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fool | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fool | det |
| 8 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ears | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 despise | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 despise | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 despise | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 despise | aux |
| 13 | despise | despise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Speak | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wisdom | det |
| 15 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 despise | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 words | case |
| 17 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 words | nmod:poss |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wisdom | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the ears of a fool | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | despise | future | eagle | the wisdom of thy words | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | word | thy | nom word «communication transitive»: 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
בְּאָזְנֵ֣י כְ֭סִיל אַל־תְּדַבֵּ֑ר כִּֽי־יָ֝ב֗וּז לְשֵׂ֣כֶל מִלֶּֽיךָ׃
Proverbs 23:9: 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:657 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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