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title: Proverbs 7:25 (JPS 1917) — Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. · tree and pragmatics
description: Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. Who acts: heart. Proverbs 7:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 7:25 · JPS 1917

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Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** not let, decline, not go · **To what, where:** paths

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This is Proverbs 7:25 · 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 (heart), 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:201
# text = Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	decline	decline	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
12	astray	astray	ADV	RB	_	10	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
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 | **not** **let** | infinitive | thy heart |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **decline** | infinitive | thy heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to heart's ways | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | heart's paths |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in path=Location |

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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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אַל־יֵ֣שְׂטְ אֶל־דְּרָכֶ֣יהָ לִבֶּ֑ךָ אַל־תֵּ֝תַע בִּנְתִיבוֹתֶֽיהָ׃

[Proverbs 7:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.25/)

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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:201` 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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