Proverbs 31:4 · JPS 1917
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine: nor for princes to say: 'Where is strong drink?'
Who acts: womb, it · What happens: not be, drink, say, be · To what, where: wine, strong drink · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Proverbs 31:4 · 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 (womb, it), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kings | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kings | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 kings | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 kings | case |
| 5 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lemuel | punct |
| 7 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 8 Lemuel | discourse |
| 8 | Lemuel | Lemuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kings | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kings | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kings | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 kings | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 kings | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 kings | case |
| 14 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kings | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 drink | mark |
| 16 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 kings | csubj |
| 17 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drink | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 princes | punct |
| 19 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 princes | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 princes | case |
| 21 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 kings | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 say | mark |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 princes | csubj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 drink | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 drink | punct |
| 26 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 drink | advmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 drink | cop |
| 28 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 drink | amod |
| 29 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 say | ccomp |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 drink | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | womb | for kings; Lemuel vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | it | for kings nor princes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | strong drink | tree rules |
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
אַ֤ל לַֽמְלָכִ֨ים ׀ לְֽמוֹאֵ֗ל אַ֣ל לַֽמְלָכִ֣ים שְׁתוֹ־יָ֑יִן וּ֝לְרוֹזְנִ֗ים אֵ֣י שֵׁכָֽר׃
Proverbs 31:4: 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:901 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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