Proverbs 24:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3
If thou sayest: 'Behold, we knew not this', doth not He that weigheth the hearts consider it?
Who acts: thou, we, safety · What happens: say, not know, weigh, not consider · To what, where: this, hearts, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Proverbs 24:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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, we, safety), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 sayest | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 sayest | nsubj |
| 3 | sayest | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 consider | advcl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 sayest | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 6 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 9 knew | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Behold | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sayest | ccomp |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 knew | advmod |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 knew | obj |
| 12 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 13 | doth | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 consider | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 consider | advmod |
| 15 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 consider | nsubj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 weigheth | nsubj |
| 17 | weigheth | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 He | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hearts | det |
| 19 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 weigheth | obj |
| 20 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 consider | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 consider | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not know | past | we | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | weigh | present | the hearts | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme heart=Value | |||||
| 4 | not consider | present · do-support | safety | heart | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |
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
כִּֽי־תֹאמַ֗ר הֵן֮ לֹא־יָדַ֪עְנ֫וּ זֶ֥ה הֲֽלֹא־תֹ֘כֵ֤ן לִבּ֨וֹת ׀ הֽוּא־יָבִ֗ין וְנֹצֵ֣ר נַ֭פְשְׁךָ ה֣וּא יֵדָ֑ע וְהֵשִׁ֖יב לְאָדָ֣ם כְּפָעֳלֽוֹ׃
Proverbs 24:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- If thou sayest: 'Behold, we knew not this', doth not He that weigheth the hearts consider it?
- And He that keepeth thy soul, doth not He know it?
- And shall not He render to every man according to his works?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:PRO:696 of Mova's parse database.
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