Proverbs 28:5 · JPS 1917
Evil men understand not justice; but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
Who acts: Evil men, princes · What happens: not understand, seek, understand · To what, where: justice, LORD, things
This is Proverbs 28:5 · 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 (Evil men, princes), 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 | Evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 men | amod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 understand | advmod |
| 5 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 understand | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 understand | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 understand | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 understand | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 seek | nsubj |
| 10 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 they | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 LORD | det |
| 12 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seek | obj |
| 13 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 understand | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 things | det |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 understand | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | present | Evil men | justice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer justice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seek | present | the LORD | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | |||||
| 3 | understand | present | princes = prince | all things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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
אַנְשֵׁי־רָ֭ע לֹא־יָבִ֣ינוּ מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּמְבַקְשֵׁ֥י יְ֝הוָ֗ה יָבִ֥ינוּ כֹֽל׃
Proverbs 28:5: 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:809 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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