Proverbs 28:3 · JPS 1917
A poor man that oppresseth the weak is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Who acts: poor man, sweeping rain · What happens: oppress, be, leave · To what, where: weak, food
This is Proverbs 28:3 · 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 (poor man, sweeping rain), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rain | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 oppresseth | nsubj |
| 5 | oppresseth | oppress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 weak | det |
| 7 | weak | weak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 oppresseth | obj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rain | cop |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 rain | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rain | det |
| 11 | sweeping | sweeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rain | amod |
| 12 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 leaveth | nsubj |
| 14 | leaveth | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rain | acl:relcl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 food | det |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaveth | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rain | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oppress | present | a poor man | the weak | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a poor man | like a sweeping rain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | present | a sweeping rain | no food | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
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
גֶּ֣בֶר רָ֭שׁ וְעֹשֵׁ֣ק דַּלִּ֑ים מָטָ֥ר סֹ֝חֵ֗ף וְאֵ֣ין לָֽחֶם׃
Proverbs 28:3: 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:807 of Mova's parse database.
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