Proverbs 26:21 · JPS 1917
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Who acts: coals · What happens: burn, be, kindle · To what, where: contentious man, strife
This is Proverbs 26:21 · 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 (coals), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 coals | mark |
| 2 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 coals | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 coals | cop |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 coals | case |
| 5 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 coals | amod |
| 6 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wood | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wood | cc |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coals | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 fire | case |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wood | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 man | advmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | contentious | contentious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coals | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 kindle | mark |
| 19 | kindle | kindle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 man | acl |
| 20 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kindle | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 coals | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | coals | to burning coals and wood to fire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a contentious man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | kindle | to-infinitive | coals not said here | strife | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition strife=Patient |
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
פֶּחָ֣ם לְ֭גֶחָלִים וְעֵצִ֣ים לְאֵ֑שׁ וְאִ֥ישׁ מִ֝דְיָנִ֗ים לְחַרְחַר־רִֽיב׃פ
Proverbs 26:21: 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:770 of Mova's parse database.
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