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title: Proverbs 8:10 (JPS 1917) — Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than ch… · tree and pragmatics
description: Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold. Who acts: you, my. Proverbs 8:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 8:10 · JPS 1917

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Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** receive, instruct · **To what, where:** instruction

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This is Proverbs 8:10 · 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, my), 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:213
# text = Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.
1	Receive	receive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	14	cc	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	choice	choice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **receive** | imperative | you *not said here* | my instruction and silver and knowledge rather choice gold |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme |
| 2 | **instruct** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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קְחֽוּ־מוּסָרִ֥י וְאַל־כָּ֑סֶף וְ֝דַ֗עַת מֵחָר֥וּץ נִבְחָֽר׃

[Proverbs 8:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.10/)

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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:213` 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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