Proverbs 27:3 · JPS 1917
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than they both.
Who acts: stone, sand, vexation, fool · What happens: be, vex
This is Proverbs 27:3 · 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 (stone, sand, vexation, fool), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stone | det |
| 2 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heavy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heavy | cop |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 weighty | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 weighty | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sand | det |
| 8 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 weighty | nsubj |
| 9 | weighty | weighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heavy | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 heavier | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 heavier | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fool | det |
| 13 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vexation | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 fool | case |
| 15 | vexation | vexation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heavier | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 heavier | cop |
| 17 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 heavy | conj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 they | case |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heavier | obl |
| 20 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 they | det |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heavy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a stone | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the sand | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | a fool's vexation | than lips = lip; heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | vex | a fool | nom vexation «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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
כֹּֽבֶד־אֶ֭בֶן וְנֵ֣טֶל הַח֑וֹל וְכַ֥עַס אֱ֝וִ֗יל כָּבֵ֥ד מִשְּׁנֵיהֶֽם׃
Proverbs 27:3: 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:780 of Mova's parse database.
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