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title: Proverbs 5:18 (JPS 1917) — Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth. · tree and pragmatics
description: Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth. Who acts: you, fountain. Proverbs 5:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 5:18 · JPS 1917

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Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.

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**Who acts:** you, fountain · **What happens:** let, bless, have, joy · **To what, where:** fountain, joy, wife

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This is Proverbs 5:18 · 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, fountain), 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:135
# text = Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy fountain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bless** | infinitive · passive | thy fountain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | you *not said here* | joy of the wife of thy youth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient |
| 4 | **joy** |  |  | the wife of thy youth |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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יְהִֽי־מְקוֹרְךָ֥ בָר֑וּךְ וּ֝שְׂמַ֗ח מֵאֵ֥שֶׁת נְעוּרֶֽךָ׃

[Proverbs 5:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.18/)

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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:135` 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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