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title: Proverbs 4:21 (JPS 1917) — Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart. Who acts: you, paths. Proverbs 4:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 4:21 · JPS 1917

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Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.

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**Who acts:** you, paths · **What happens:** let, not depart, keep · **To what, where:** paths, eyes, midst

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This is Proverbs 4:21 · 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: who acts (you, paths), 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:111
# text = Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | paths *= path* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **depart** | infinitive | paths *= path* *not said here* |  |  | thine eyes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | paths *= path* |  | the midst of thy heart |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in midst=Location |

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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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אַל־יַלִּ֥יזוּ מֵעֵינֶ֑יךָ שָׁ֝מְרֵ֗ם בְּת֣וֹךְ לְבָבֶֽךָ׃

[Proverbs 4:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.21/)

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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:111` 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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