Proverbs 23:22 · JPS 1917
Hearken unto thy father that begot thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Who acts: you, father, drowsiness · What happens: hearken, beget, not despise, be · To what, where: thee, mother
This is Proverbs 23:22 · 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, father, drowsiness), 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 | Hearken | hearken | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 4 father | case |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hearken | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 begot | nsubj |
| 6 | begot | beget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 father | acl:relcl |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 begot | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 despise | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 despise | cc |
| 10 | despise | despise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hearken | conj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 despise | advmod |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 despise | obj |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 old | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 old | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 old | cop |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 despise | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hearken | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=request
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hearken | imperative | you not said here | unto thy father | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beget | past | thy father | thee | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not despise | infinitive | you not said here | thy mother | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | drowsiness | old property | tree rules |
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
שְׁמַ֣ע לְ֭אָבִיךָ זֶ֣ה יְלָדֶ֑ךָ וְאַל־תָּ֝ב֗וּז כִּֽי־זָקְנָ֥ה אִמֶּֽךָ׃
Proverbs 23:22: 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:670 of Mova's parse database.
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