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title: Proverbs 4:25 (JPS 1917) — Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Who acts: you, eyes, eyelids. Proverbs 4:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 4:25 · JPS 1917

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Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

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**Who acts:** you, eyes, eyelids · **What happens:** let, look · **To what, where:** eyelids

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This is Proverbs 4:25 · 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, eyes, eyelids), 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:115
# text = Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	before	before	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: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | thine eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thine eyelids |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | thine eyelids *not said here* |  |  |  | before thee |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent before thou=Theme |

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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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עֵ֭ינֶיךָ לְנֹ֣כַח יַבִּ֑יטוּ וְ֝עַפְעַפֶּ֗יךָ יַיְשִׁ֥רוּ נֶגְדֶּֽךָ׃

[Proverbs 4:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.25/)

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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:115` 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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