Proverbs 26:4 · JPS 1917
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: not answer, accord, be · To what, where: fool
This is Proverbs 26:4 · 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, thou), 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 | Answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Answer | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fool | det |
| 4 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Answer | obj |
| 5 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 folly | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 according | fixed |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 folly | nmod:poss |
| 8 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Answer | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 10 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 14 like | mark |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 like | nsubj |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 like | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 like | cop |
| 14 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Answer | advcl |
| 15 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 like | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Answer | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a fool | accord horse's folly | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fool=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | thou | unto horse; like 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
אַל־תַּ֣עַן כְּ֭סִיל כְּאִוַּלְתּ֑וֹ פֶּֽן־תִּשְׁוֶה־לּ֥וֹ גַם־אָֽתָּה׃
Proverbs 26:4: 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:753 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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