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title: Proverbs 7:24 (JPS 1917) — Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and attend to the wor… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth. Who acts: you. Proverbs 7:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 7:24 · JPS 1917

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Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hearken, attend, word · **To what, where:** mouth

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This is Proverbs 7:24 · 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:200
# text = Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	attend	attend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | unto me; children  ye *vocative*; therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **attend** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the words of my mouth | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
| 3 | **word** |  |  | my mouth |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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וְעַתָּ֣ה בָ֭נִים שִׁמְעוּ־לִ֑י וְ֝הַקְשִׁ֗יבוּ לְאִמְרֵי־פִֽי׃

[Proverbs 7:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.24/)

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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:200` 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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