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title: Proverbs 5:17 (JPS 1917) — Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. · tree and pragmatics
description: Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. Who acts: you, waters. Proverbs 5:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 5:17 · JPS 1917

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Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

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**Who acts:** you, waters · **What happens:** let, be · **To what, where:** waters, thine own

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This is Proverbs 5:17 · 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, waters), 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:134
# text = Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
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	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	thine	thine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	own	own	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | waters *= water* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | waters *= water* *not said here* | thine own and strangers with thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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יִֽהְיוּ־לְךָ֥ לְבַדֶּ֑ךָ וְאֵ֖ין לְזָרִ֣ים אִתָּֽךְ׃

[Proverbs 5:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.17/)

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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:134` 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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