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title: Proverbs 8:5 (JPS 1917) — O ye thoughtless, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be ye of an un… · tree and pragmatics
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# Proverbs 8:5 · JPS 1917

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O ye thoughtless, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

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**Who acts:** you, ye · **What happens:** understand, be · **To what, where:** prudence

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This is Proverbs 8:5 · 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, ye), 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:208
# text = O ye thoughtless, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	det	_	_
3	thoughtless	thoughtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	vocative	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	understand	understand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	prudence	prudence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	det	_	_
11	fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	vocative	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	understanding	understanding	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | imperative | you *not said here* | prudence |  |  |  | ye thoughtless *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer prudence=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | of a understanding heart; ye fools *vocative* | 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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הָבִ֣ינוּ פְתָאיִ֣ם עָרְמָ֑ה וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים הָבִ֥ינוּ לֵֽב׃

[Proverbs 8:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.5/)

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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:208` 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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