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title: Proverbs 5:19 (JPS 1917) — A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at al… · tree and pragmatics
description: A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always. Who acts: breasts, wife. Proverbs 5:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 5:19 · JPS 1917

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A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always.

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**Who acts:** breasts, wife · **What happens:** let, satisfy, ravish, love · **To what, where:** thee, thou

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This is Proverbs 5:19 · 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 (breasts, wife), 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:136
# text = A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hind	hind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	doe	doe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	breasts	breast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
12	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	ravished	ravish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
24	always	always	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, indirect=0, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | wife's breasts |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **satisfy** | infinitive | wife's breasts *not said here* | thee |  |  | time | a lovely hind and a graceful doe *vocative* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer |
| 3 | **ravish** | infinitive · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | with wife's love; always *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **love** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אַיֶּ֥לֶת אֲהָבִ֗ים וְֽיַעֲלַ֫ת־חֵ֥ן דַּ֭דֶּיהָ יְרַוֻּ֣ךָ בְכָל־עֵ֑ת בְּ֝אַהֲבָתָ֗הּ תִּשְׁגֶּ֥ה תָמִֽיד׃

[Proverbs 5:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.19/)

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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:136` 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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