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title: Proverbs 7:4 (JPS 1917) — Say unto wisdom: 'Thou art my sister', and call understanding thy ki… · tree and pragmatics
description: Say unto wisdom: 'Thou art my sister', and call understanding thy kinswoman; Who acts: you. Proverbs 7:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 7:4 · JPS 1917

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Say unto wisdom: 'Thou art my sister', and call understanding thy kinswoman;

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** say, be, call · **To what, where:** sister, understanding · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 7:4 · 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:180
# text = Say unto wisdom: 'Thou art my sister', and call understanding thy kinswoman;
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	_
10	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
13	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	kinswoman	kinswoman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto wisdom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | my sister |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* | understanding |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent understanding=Recipient |

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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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אֱמֹ֣ר לַֽ֭חָכְמָה אֲחֹ֣תִי אָ֑תְּ וּ֝מֹדָ֗ע לַבִּינָ֥ה תִקְרָֽא׃

[Proverbs 7:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.4/)

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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:180` 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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