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title: Proverbs 6:9 (JPS 1917) — How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? · tree and pragmatics
description: How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? Who acts: thou. Proverbs 6:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 6:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** sleep

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This is Proverbs 6:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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:149
# text = How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	sluggard	sluggard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- 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 | **sleep** | future | thou |  |  |  |  | sluggard *vocative*; long *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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עַד־מָתַ֖י עָצֵ֥ל ׀ תִּשְׁכָּ֑ב מָ֝תַ֗י תָּק֥וּם מִשְּׁנָתֶֽךָ׃

[Proverbs 6:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?**
2. [When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.150/)

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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:149` 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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