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title: Proverbs 5:2 (JPS 1917) — That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep kno… · tree and pragmatics
description: That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. Who acts: thou, lips. Proverbs 5:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 5:2 · JPS 1917

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That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

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**Who acts:** thou, lips · **What happens:** preserve, keep · **To what, where:** discretion, knowledge

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This is Proverbs 5:2 · 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: who acts (thou, 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:119
# text = That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
1	That	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	discretion	discretion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preserve** | may | thou | discretion |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discretion=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **keep** | may | thy lips | knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=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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לִשְׁמֹ֥ר מְזִמּ֑וֹת וְ֝דַ֗עַת שְׂפָתֶ֥יךָ יִנְצֹֽרוּ׃

[Proverbs 5:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.2/)

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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:119` 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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