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title: Proverbs 5:12 (JPS 1917) — And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; · tree and pragmatics
description: And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; Who acts: you, I, heart. Proverbs 5:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 5:12 · JPS 1917

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And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

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**Who acts:** you, I, heart · **What happens:** say, hate, despise · **To what, where:** instruction, reproof · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 5:12 · 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, I, heart), 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:129
# text = And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
5	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hated	hate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
9	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	despised	despise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	reproof	reproof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hate** | present · perfect | I | instruction |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer instruction=Stimulus |
| 3 | **despise** | past | my heart | reproof |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reproof=Stimulus |

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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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וְֽאָמַרְתָּ֗ אֵ֭יךְ שָׂנֵ֣אתִי מוּסָ֑ר וְ֝תוֹכַ֗חַת נָאַ֥ץ לִבִּֽי׃

[Proverbs 5:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.12/)

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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:129` 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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