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title: Proverbs 1:2 (JPS 1917) — To know wisdom and instruction; to comprehend the words of understan… · tree and pragmatics
description: To know wisdom and instruction; to comprehend the words of understanding; Proverbs 1:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 1:2 · JPS 1917

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To know wisdom and instruction; to comprehend the words of understanding;

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**What happens:** know, comprehend, word · **To what, where:** wisdom, words, understanding

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This is Proverbs 1:2 · 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: 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:PRO:1
# text = To know wisdom and instruction; to comprehend the words of understanding;
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag, act=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | to-infinitive |  | wisdom and instruction |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus |
| 2 | **comprehend** | to-infinitive |  | the words of understanding |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 3 | **word** |  |  | understanding |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#hebrew}

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לָדַ֣עַת חָכְמָ֣ה וּמוּסָ֑ר לְ֝הָבִ֗ין אִמְרֵ֥י בִינָֽה׃

[Proverbs 1:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.2/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:1` 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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