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title: Proverbs 1:15 (JPS 1917) — My son, walk not thou in the way with them, restrain thy foot from t… · tree and pragmatics
description: My son, walk not thou in the way with them, restrain thy foot from their path; Who acts: thou. Proverbs 1:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 1:15 · JPS 1917

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My son, walk not thou in the way with them, restrain thy foot from their path;

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** not walk, restrain · **To what, where:** way, foot, path

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This is Proverbs 1:15 · 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 (thou), 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:14
# text = My son, walk not thou in the way with them, restrain thy foot from their path;
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	restrain	restrain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **walk** | infinitive | thou |  |  | the way |  | with sinners *= sinner*; My son *vocative* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory |
| 2 | **restrain** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | thy foot |  | sinners's path |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer foot=Beneficiary from path=Eventuality |

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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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בְּנִ֗י אַל־תֵּלֵ֣ךְ בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ אִתָּ֑ם מְנַ֥ע רַ֝גְלְךָ֗ מִנְּתִיבָתָֽם׃

[Proverbs 1:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.15/)

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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:14` 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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