Proverbs 23:23 · JPS 1917
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Who acts: you · What happens: buy, not sell · To what, where: truth
This is Proverbs 23:23 · 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), 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 | Buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Buy | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sell | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sell | cc |
| 6 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Buy | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sell | obj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 sell | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 wisdom | punct |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 wisdom | advmod |
| 11 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sell | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 instruction | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 instruction | cc |
| 14 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wisdom | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 understanding | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 understanding | cc |
| 17 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wisdom | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Buy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | imperative | you not said here | the truth | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not sell | infinitive | you not said here | truth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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
אֱמֶ֣ת קְ֭נֵה וְאַל־תִּמְכֹּ֑ר חָכְמָ֖ה וּמוּסָ֣ר וּבִינָֽה׃
Proverbs 23:23: 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:671 of Mova's parse database.
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