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title: Proverbs 4:24 (JPS 1917) — Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. Who acts: you, perverse lips. Proverbs 4:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 4:24 · JPS 1917

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Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

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**Who acts:** you, perverse lips · **What happens:** put away, put · **To what, where:** froward mouth, thee

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This is Proverbs 4:24 · 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, perverse lips), 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:114
# text = Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	froward	froward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	perverse	perverse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obl	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **put away** | imperative | you *not said here* | a froward mouth |  | thee |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mouth=Goal |
| 2 | **put** | past | perverse lips |  |  | thee |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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הָסֵ֣ר מִ֭מְּךָ עִקְּשׁ֣וּת פֶּ֑ה וּלְז֥וּת שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם הַרְחֵ֥ק מִמֶּֽךָּ׃

[Proverbs 4:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.24/)

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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:114` 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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