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title: Proverbs 7:22 (JPS 1917) — He goeth after her straightway, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter… · tree and pragmatics
description: He goeth after her straightway, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool; Who acts: husband, ox. Proverbs 7:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 7:22 · JPS 1917

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He goeth after her straightway, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool;

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**Who acts:** husband, ox · **What happens:** go, correct · **To what, where:** slaughter, fool

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This is Proverbs 7:22 · 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 (husband, ox), 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:198
# text = He goeth after her straightway, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool;
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goeth	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	case	_	_
5	straightway	straightway	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	goeth	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fetters	fetter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	correction	correction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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** | present | husband |  |  |  |  | after, straightway *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | a ox |  |  | the slaughter |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to slaughter=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **correct** |  |  | the fool |  |  |  |  | nom correction «act 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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ה֤וֹלֵ֥ךְ אַחֲרֶ֗יהָ פִּ֫תְאֹ֥ם כְּ֭שׁוֹר אֶל־טָ֣בַחיָב֑וֹא וּ֝כְעֶ֗כֶס אֶל־מוּסַ֥ר אֱוִֽיל׃

[Proverbs 7:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.22/)

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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:198` 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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