--- title: Proverbs 19:13 — A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. Who acts: foolish son, contentions, wife. Proverbs 19:13 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Proverbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/) / [chapter 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/19/) / 19:13 # Proverbs 19:13 מִשְׁלֵי **Who acts:** foolish son, contentions, wife · **What happens:** be, contend · **To what, where:** calamity, continual dropping This is Proverbs 19:13 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — foolish son, contentions, wife — and what happens in the verse to calamity, continual dropping, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 31 chapters of Proverbs on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. הַוֺּ֣ת לְ֭אָבִיו בֵּ֣ן כְּסִ֑יל וְדֶ֥לֶף טֹ֝רֵ֗ד מִדְיְנֵ֥י אִשָּֽׁה׃ [A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.542/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:PRO:537 # text = הַוֺּ֣ת לְ֭אָבִיו בֵּ֣ן כְּסִ֑יל וְדֶ֥לֶף טֹ֝רֵ֗ד מִדְיְנֵ֥י אִשָּֽׁה׃ # verse = PRO.19.13 1 הַוֺּ֣ת הַוָּה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 0 root _ Gloss=[is].destruction(s)|Ref=PRO_19:13!1|MId=o200190130011|Strong=1942a 2-4 לְ֭אָבִיו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 לְ֭ לְ ADP _ _ 3 case _ Gloss=to|Ref=PRO_19:13!2|MId=o200190130021|Strong=3807a 3 אָבִי אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 obl _ Gloss=father|Ref=PRO_19:13!2|MId=o200190130022|Strong=0001 4 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=PRO_19:13!2|MId=o200190130023|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 5 בֵּ֣ן בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ Gloss=a.son|Ref=PRO_19:13!3|MId=o200190130031|Strong=1121 6 כְּסִ֑יל כְּסִיל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 5 appos _ Gloss=a.fool|Ref=PRO_19:13!4|MId=o200190130041|Strong=3684|Type=adjective 7-8 וְדֶ֥לֶף _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 8 cc _ Gloss=and.[are]|Ref=PRO_19:13!5|MId=o200190130051|Strong=2050b 8 דֶ֥לֶף דֶּלֶף NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 conj _ Gloss=a.dripping|Ref=PRO_19:13!5|MId=o200190130052|Strong=1812 9 טֹ֝רֵ֗ד טָרַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Gloss=continual|Ref=PRO_19:13!6|MId=o200190130061|Strong=2956|Frame=A0:200190130052;|Type=participle_active 10 מִדְיְנֵ֥י מִדְיָן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ Gloss=[the].contentions|Ref=PRO_19:13!7|MId=o200190130071|Strong=4079 11 אִשָּֽׁה אִשָּׁה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 10 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.wife|Ref=PRO_19:13!8|MId=o200190130081|Strong=0802|SpaceAfter=No 12 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 11 punct _ Ref=PRO_19:13!8 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - speech: narration - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | טֹרֵד *continual* | participle active · qal | דֶלֶף *a dripping* | | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## The Targum {#onkelos} בַּר סַכְלָא קָשֵׁיהּ הוּא לַאֲבוּי הֵיךְ קִרְסֵי וְהֵיךְ דָלְפָא דְדָלֵף תִּגְרֵי דְאִתְּתָא: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [A foolish son is the calamity of his father; and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.542/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). Hebrew sentence `wlc:PRO:537`. - ← previous: [Proverbs 19:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.12/) - next →: [Proverbs 19:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.14/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/19/)