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title: Proverbs 8:4 (JPS 1917) — 'Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. Who acts: I, voice. Proverbs 8:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 8:4 · JPS 1917

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'Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.

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**Who acts:** I, voice · **What happens:** call, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 8:4 · 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 (I, voice), 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:207
# text = 'Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
2	Unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | I |  |  |  |  | unto you; men *vocative* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | my voice |  |  |  |  | to the sons; of men | tree rules |

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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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אֲלֵיכֶ֣ם אִישִׁ֣ים אֶקְרָ֑א וְ֝קוֹלִ֗י אֶל־בְּנֵ֥י אָדָֽם׃

[Proverbs 8:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.4/)

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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:207` 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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