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title: Proverbs 26:1 — As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly f… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool. Who acts: honour. Proverbs 26:1 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 26:1 מִשְׁלֵי

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**Who acts:** honour · **What happens:** not be

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This is Proverbs 26:1 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 — honour — and what happens in the verse, 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.

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כַּשֶּׁ֤לֶג ׀ בַּקַּ֗יִץ וְכַמָּטָ֥ר בַּקָּצִ֑יר כֵּ֤ן לֹא־נָאוֶ֖ה לִכְסִ֣יל כָּבֽוֹד׃

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[As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.750/)

## The tree {#tree}

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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:741
# text = כַּשֶּׁ֤לֶג ׀ בַּקַּ֗יִץ וְכַמָּטָ֥ר בַּקָּצִ֑יר כֵּ֤ן לֹא־נָאוֶ֖ה לִכְסִ֣יל כָּבֽוֹד׃
# verse = PRO.26.1
1-3	כַּשֶּׁ֤לֶג	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	כַּ	כְּ	ADP	_	_	3	case	_	Gloss=like|Ref=PRO_26:1!1|MId=o200260010011|Strong=3509a
2	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	3	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=PRO_26:1!1|MId=o200260010011ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
3	שֶּׁ֤לֶג	שֶׁלֶג	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Gloss=snow|Ref=PRO_26:1!1|MId=o200260010012|Strong=7950
4	׀	׀	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	Ref=PRO_26:1!1
5-7	בַּקַּ֗יִץ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
5	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=PRO_26:1!2|MId=o200260010021|Strong=0871a
6	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	7	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=PRO_26:1!2|MId=o200260010021ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
7	קַּ֗יִץ	קַיִץ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Gloss=summer|Ref=PRO_26:1!2|MId=o200260010022|Strong=7019
8-11	וְכַמָּטָ֥ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	11	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=PRO_26:1!3|MId=o200260010031|Strong=2050b
9	כַ	כְּ	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	Gloss=like|Ref=PRO_26:1!3|MId=o200260010032|Strong=3509a
10	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	11	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=PRO_26:1!3|MId=o200260010032ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
11	מָּטָ֥ר	מָטַר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Gloss=rain|Ref=PRO_26:1!3|MId=o200260010033|Strong=4306
12-14	בַּקָּצִ֑יר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	14	case	_	Gloss=at|Ref=PRO_26:1!4|MId=o200260010041|Strong=0871a
13	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	14	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=PRO_26:1!4|MId=o200260010041ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
14	קָּצִ֑יר	קָצִיר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	Gloss=harvest|Ref=PRO_26:1!4|MId=o200260010042|Strong=7105
15	כֵּ֤ן	כֵּן	ADV	_	_	17	advmod	_	Gloss=so|Ref=PRO_26:1!5|MId=o200260010051|Strong=3651|Type=demonstrative
16	לֹא־	לֹא	ADV	_	_	17	advmod	_	Gloss=not|Ref=PRO_26:1!6|MId=o200260010061|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No
17	נָאוֶ֖ה	נָאוֶה	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	Gloss=[is].suitable|Ref=PRO_26:1!7|MId=o200260010071|Strong=5000|Type=adjective
18-19	לִכְסִ֣יל	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
18	לִ	לְ	ADP	_	_	19	case	_	Gloss=for|Ref=PRO_26:1!8|MId=o200260010081|Strong=3807a
19	כְסִ֣יל	כְּסִיל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Gloss=a.fool|Ref=PRO_26:1!8|MId=o200260010082|Strong=3684|Type=adjective
20	כָּבֽוֹד	כָּבוֹד	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Gloss=honor|Ref=PRO_26:1!9|MId=o200260010091|Strong=3519|SpaceAfter=No
21	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	20	punct	_	Ref=PRO_26:1!9
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: yes

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MACULA marks no verb frame in this verse.

## The Targum {#onkelos}

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אֵיךְ תַּלְגָא בְקַיְטָא וְהֵיךְ מִטְרָא בְּחַצְדָא הֵיכְנָא לָא יָאֵי לְסִכְלָא יְקָרָא:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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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.

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1. [As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.750/)

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**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:741`.

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