Grammar parses for passage 7.23.3
Open translation for this passage
εἰ δὲ μέτεστιν ἀληθείας τῷ λόγῳ, τιμιώτερον χρημάτων πολλῶν ἐστιν ἀνθρώποις τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦ Σελέμνου.
Conditional μέτεστιν ἀληθείας τῷ λόγῳ means ‘if the statement contains truth’; the apodosis has τὸ ὕδωρ as subject, ἐστιν as copula, and τιμιώτερον as predicate adjective, with Σελέμνου genitival dependent on ὕδωρ.
| # | Form | Lemma | UPOS | XPOS | Features | Head | DepRel | Conf. | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | εἰ | εἰ | SCONJ | CONJ | PronType=Rel | 3 μέτεστιν | mark | high | Introduces the conditional protasis. |
| 2 | δὲ | δέ | CCONJ | CONJ | _ | 3 μέτεστιν | cc | high | Postpositive connective particle. |
| 3 | μέτεστιν | μέτειμι | VERB | V-PAI-3S | Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Voice=Act | 11 ἐστιν | advcl | medium | Impersonal μέτεστι with genitive and dative complements; parsed as the protasis predicate. |
| 4 | ἀληθείας | ἀλήθεια | NOUN | N-GSF | Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing | 3 μέτεστιν | obl | high | Genitive of content or partitive complement with μέτεστιν. |
| 5 | τῷ | ὁ | DET | T-DSM | Case=Dat|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art | 6 λόγῳ | det | high | |
| 6 | λόγῳ | λόγος | NOUN | N-DSM | Case=Dat|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing | 3 μέτεστιν | iobj | high | Dative associated with μέτεστιν, ‘the statement’. |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | PUNCT | _ | 3 μέτεστιν | punct | high | |
| 8 | τιμιώτερον | τίμιος | ADJ | A-NSN-C | Case=Nom|Degree=Cmp|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing | 11 ἐστιν | xcomp | high | Comparative predicate adjective agreeing with τὸ ὕδωρ. |
| 9 | χρημάτων | χρῆμα | NOUN | N-GPN | Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Plur | 8 τιμιώτερον | obl | high | Genitive of comparison with τιμιώτερον. |
| 10 | πολλῶν | πολύς | ADJ | A-GPN | Case=Gen|Degree=Pos|Gender=Neut|Number=Plur | 9 χρημάτων | amod | high | |
| 11 | ἐστιν | εἰμί | AUX | V-PAI-3S | Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Voice=Act | 0 ROOT | root | high | Copula of the apodosis. |
| 12 | ἀνθρώποις | ἄνθρωπος | NOUN | N-DPM | Case=Dat|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur | 11 ἐστιν | iobj | high | Dative of reference, ‘for human beings’. |
| 13 | τὸ | ὁ | DET | T-NSN | Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|PronType=Art | 14 ὕδωρ | det | high | |
| 14 | ὕδωρ | ὕδωρ | NOUN | N-NSN | Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing | 11 ἐστιν | nsubj | high | Subject of the copular clause. |
| 15 | τοῦ | ὁ | DET | T-GSM | Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art | 16 Σελέμνου | det | high | |
| 16 | Σελέμνου | Σελέμνος | PROPN | N-GSM | Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing | 14 ὕδωρ | nmod | high | Proper-name genitive modifying ὕδωρ. |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | PUNCT | _ | 11 ἐστιν | punct | high |