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title: Proverbs 6:6 (JPS 1917) — Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise; · tree and pragmatics
description: Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise; Who acts: you. Proverbs 6:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 6:6 · JPS 1917

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Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise;

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** go, consider, be · **To what, where:** ant, ways

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This is Proverbs 6:6 · 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), 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:146
# text = Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise;
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sluggard	sluggard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	consider	consider	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the ant |  | thou's sluggard *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ant=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **consider** | infinitive |  | gazelle's ways |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent way=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | 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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לֵֽךְ־אֶל־נְמָלָ֥ה עָצֵ֑ל רְאֵ֖ה דְרָכֶ֣יהָ וַחֲכָֽם׃

[Proverbs 6:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.6/)

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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:146` 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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