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title: Proverbs 8:3 (JPS 1917) — Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud: Who acts: wisdom. Proverbs 8:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 8:3 · JPS 1917

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Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:

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**Who acts:** wisdom · **What happens:** come in, cry, enter · **To what, where:** doors, gates, city

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This is Proverbs 8:3 · 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 (wisdom), 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:206
# text = Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:
1	Beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	entry	entry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	crieth	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | gerund |  |  |  | the doors |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | wisdom |  |  | the gates |  | at the entry of the city; aloud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside gate=Location |
| 3 | **enter** |  |  | the city |  |  |  |  | nom entry «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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לְיַד־שְׁעָרִ֥ים לְפִי־קָ֑רֶת מְב֖וֹא פְתָחִ֣ים תָּרֹֽנָּה׃

[Proverbs 8:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.3/)

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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:206` 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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