Proverbs 27:22 · JPS 1917
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Who acts: thou, foolishness · What happens: bray, not depart · To what, where: fool, mortar
This is Proverbs 27:22 · 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 (thou, foolishness), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 bray | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 bray | nsubj |
| 3 | shouldest | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 bray | aux |
| 4 | bray | bray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 depart | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fool | det |
| 6 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bray | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mortar | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mortar | det |
| 9 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bray | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 pestle | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pestle | det |
| 12 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bray | obl |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 groats | case |
| 14 | groats | groat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pestle | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 depart | punct |
| 16 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 21 depart | cc |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 depart | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 depart | advmod |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 foolishness | nmod:poss |
| 20 | foolishness | foolishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 depart | nsubj |
| 21 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 depart | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 depart | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bray | should | thou | a fool | a mortar | with a pestle among groats | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Topic | ||
| 2 | not depart | future | Destruction's foolishness | from Destruction | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial_Location |
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
אִ֥ם תִּכְתּֽוֹשׁ־אֶת־הָאֱוִ֨יל ׀ בַּֽמַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ בְּת֣וֹךְ הָ֭רִיפוֹת בַּֽעֱלִ֑י לֹא־תָס֥וּר מֵ֝עָלָ֗יו אִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃פ
Proverbs 27:22: 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:799 of Mova's parse database.
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