--- title: Proverbs 30:17 — The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it. Who acts: eye, young vultures. Proverbs 30:17 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.30.17/) [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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/30/) / 30:17 # Proverbs 30:17 מִשְׁלֵי **Who acts:** eye, young vultures · **What happens:** mock, despise, obey, pick out, eat · **To what, where:** mother, valley This is Proverbs 30:17 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 — eye, young vultures — and what happens in the verse to mother, valley, 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. עַ֤יִן ׀ תִּֽלְעַ֣ג לְאָב֮ וְתָב֪וּז לִֽיקֲּהַ֫ת־אֵ֥ם יִקְּר֥וּהָ עֹרְבֵי־נַ֑חַל וְֽיֹאכְל֥וּהָ בְנֵי־נָֽשֶׁר׃פ [The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.881/) ## 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:867 # text = עַ֤יִן ׀ תִּֽלְעַ֣ג לְאָב֮ וְתָב֪וּז לִֽיקֲּהַ֫ת־אֵ֥ם יִקְּר֥וּהָ עֹרְבֵי־נַ֑חַל וְֽיֹאכְל֥וּהָ בְנֵי־נָֽשֶׁר׃פ # verse = PRO.30.17 1 עַ֤יִן עַיִן NOUN _ Number=Sing 11 dislocated _ Gloss=an.eye|Ref=PRO_30:17!1|MId=o200300170011|Strong=5869 2 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 1 punct _ Ref=PRO_30:17!1 3 תִּֽלְעַ֣ג לָעַג VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 1 acl _ Gloss=[which].it.mocks|Ref=PRO_30:17!2|MId=o200300170021|Strong=3932|Frame=A0:200300170011;|Type=yiqtol 4-5 לְאָב֮ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 5 case _ Gloss=(to).a|Ref=PRO_30:17!3|MId=o200300170031|Strong=3807a 5 אָב֮ אָב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 3 obl _ Gloss=father|Ref=PRO_30:17!3|MId=o200300170032|Strong=0001 6-7 וְתָב֪וּז _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and.[which]|Ref=PRO_30:17!4|MId=o200300170041|Strong=2050b 7 תָב֪וּז בּוּז VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 3 conj _ Gloss=it.despises|Ref=PRO_30:17!4|MId=o200300170042|Strong=0936|Frame=A0:200300170011;|Type=yiqtol 8-9 לִֽיקֲּהַ֫ת־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 לִֽ לְ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=(to)|Ref=PRO_30:17!5|MId=o200300170051|Strong=3807a 9 יקֲּהַ֫ת־ יִקְּהָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 7 obl _ Gloss=obedience|Ref=PRO_30:17!5|MId=o200300170052|Strong=3349 10 אֵ֥ם אֵם NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.a.mother|Ref=PRO_30:17!6|MId=o200300170061|Strong=0517 11-12 יִקְּר֥וּהָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 יִקְּר֥וּ נָקַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=they|Ref=PRO_30:17!7|MId=o200300170071|Strong=5365|Frame=A1:200300170072;A0:200300170081;|Type=yiqtol 12 הָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ Gloss=will.peck.it.out|Ref=PRO_30:17!7|MId=o200300170072|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 13 עֹרְבֵי־ עֹרֵב NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ Gloss=[the].ravens|Ref=PRO_30:17!8|MId=o200300170081|Strong=6158|SpaceAfter=No 14 נַ֑חַל נַחַל NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 13 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.[the].wadi|Ref=PRO_30:17!9|MId=o200300170091|Strong=5158 15-17 וְֽיֹאכְל֥וּהָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 וְֽ וְ CCONJ _ _ 16 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PRO_30:17!10|MId=o200300170101|Strong=2050b 16 יֹאכְל֥וּ אָכַל VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 11 conj _ Gloss=they|Ref=PRO_30:17!10|MId=o200300170102|Strong=0398|Frame=A1:200300170103;A0:200300170111;|Type=yiqtol 17 הָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ Gloss=will.eat.it|Ref=PRO_30:17!10|MId=o200300170103|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 18 בְנֵי־ בֵּן NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ Gloss=[the].young|Ref=PRO_30:17!11|MId=o200300170111|Strong=1121|SpaceAfter=No 19 נָֽשֶׁר נֶשֶׁר NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 18 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.an.eagle|Ref=PRO_30:17!12|MId=o200300170121|Strong=5404|SpaceAfter=No 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=PRO_30:17!12|SpaceAfter=No 21 פ פ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=PRO_30:17!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | תִּֽלְעַג *\[which\] it mocks* | yiqtol · qal | עַיִן *an eye* | | | | | תָבוּז *it despises* | yiqtol · qal | עַיִן *an eye* | | | | | יִקְּרוּ *they* | yiqtol · qal | עֹרְבֵי־ *\[the\] ravens* | הָ *will peck it out* | | | | יֹאכְלוּ *they* | yiqtol · qal | בְנֵי־ *\[the\] young* | הָ *will eat it* | | | 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} עֵינָא דִמְצָרְיָא לְאָב וְשָׁיְטָא קְשִׁישׁוּתָא דְאִמָא נֶחְצוּנֵיהּ עוּרְבֵי דְנַחֲלָא וְיִסַמוּן יָתֵיהּ בְּנֵי נִשְׁרָא: 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. [The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.881/) **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:867`. - ← previous: [Proverbs 30:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.16/) - next →: [Proverbs 30:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.18/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/30/)