Proverbs 3:18 · JPS 1917
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, and happy is every one that holdest her fast.
Who acts: truth, tree, one · What happens: be, lay hold, hold · To what, where: tree, ways, one, truth
This is Proverbs 3:18 · 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 (truth, tree, one), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tree | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tree | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tree | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tree | acl:relcl |
| 11 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | compound:prt |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hold | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 happy | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 happy | cc |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tree | conj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 one | cop |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 happy | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 holdest | nsubj |
| 21 | holdest | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 one | acl:relcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 holdest | obj |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 holdest | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | truth | a tree | ways = way | of life | tree rules | ||
| 2 | lay hold | present | a tree | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | every one | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | every one | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hold | present | every one | truth | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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
עֵץ־חַיִּ֣ים הִ֭יא לַמַּחֲזִיקִ֣ים בָּ֑הּ וְֽתֹמְכֶ֥יהָ מְאֻשָּֽׁר׃פ
Proverbs 3:18: 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:73 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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