Proverbs 26:5 · JPS 1917
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
Who acts: you, horse · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: fool, own eyes
This is Proverbs 26:5 · 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, horse), 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fool | det |
| 3 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Answer | obj |
| 4 | according | accord | ADP | _ | 7 folly | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 according | fixed |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 folly | nmod:poss |
| 7 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Answer | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wise | punct |
| 9 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 12 wise | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wise | nsubj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | Mood=Sub VerbForm=Inf | 12 wise | cop |
| 12 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Answer | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 eyes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyes | amod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wise | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Answer | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 | is | infinitive | horse | horse's own eyes | wise 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
עֲנֵ֣ה כְ֭סִיל כְּאִוַּלְתּ֑וֹ פֶּן־יִהְיֶ֖ה חָכָ֣ם בְּעֵינָֽיו׃
Proverbs 26:5: 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:754 of Mova's parse database.
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