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title: Proverbs 5:20 (JPS 1917) — Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and em… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien? Proverbs 5:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 5:20 · JPS 1917

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Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?

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**What happens:** ravish, embrace, bosom · **To what, where:** thou, bosom, alien

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This is Proverbs 5:20 · 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: 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:137
# text = Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
3	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	ravished	ravish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	embrace	embrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	alien	alien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ravish** | future · passive |  | thou |  |  | then | with a strange woman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **embrace** | infinitive |  | the bosom of a alien |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bosom=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **bosom** |  |  | a alien |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state 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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וְלָ֤מָּה תִשְׁגֶּ֣ה בְנִ֣י בְזָרָ֑ה וּ֝תְחַבֵּ֗ק חֵ֣ק נָכְרִיָּֽה׃

[Proverbs 5:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.20/)

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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:137` 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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