Proverbs 30:14 · JPS 1917

There is a generation whose teeth are as swords, and their great teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Who acts: generation, teeth · What happens: be, generation, devour · To what, where: poor, earth

This is Proverbs 30:14 · 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 (generation, teeth), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 generation	det
4	generation	generation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 teeth	nmod:poss
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 generation	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 swords	cop
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 swords	case
9	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 teeth	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 teeth	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 teeth	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 teeth	nmod:poss
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 teeth	amod
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 generation	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	16 knives	case
16	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 teeth	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 devour	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 devour	mark
19	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 teeth	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 poor	det
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 devour	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 earth	case
23	off	off	ADP	_	25 earth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 earth	det
25	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 devour	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 needy	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 needy	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 needy	det
29	needy	needy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 poor	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 men	case
31	among	among	ADP	_	32 men	case
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 needy	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	a generation and teeth's great teeth as knives		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	generation		a generation and teeth's great teeth as knives's teeth				tree rules
3	is	present				as swords	tree rules
4	devour	to-infinitive	a generation and teeth's great teeth as knives's teeth not said here	the poor	the earth		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=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

דּ֤וֹר ׀ חֲרָב֣וֹת שִׁנָּיו֮ וּֽמַאֲכָל֪וֹת מְֽתַלְּעֹ֫תָ֥יולֶאֱכֹ֣ל עֲנִיִּ֣ים מֵאֶ֑רֶץ וְ֝אֶבְיוֹנִ֗ים מֵאָדָֽם׃פ

Proverbs 30:14: 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:878 of Mova's parse database.

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