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title: Proverbs 8:14 (JPS 1917) — Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine. · tree and pragmatics
description: Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine. Who acts: Counsel, wisdom, I, power. Proverbs 8:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 8:14 · JPS 1917

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Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine.

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**Who acts:** Counsel, wisdom, I, power · **What happens:** be, understand · **To what, where:** mine

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This is Proverbs 8:14 · 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 (Counsel, wisdom, I, power), 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:217
# text = Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine.
1	Counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sound	sound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
7	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	understanding	understand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	parataxis	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | Counsel | mine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | wisdom |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **understand** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | present | power | mine |  |  |  |  | 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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לִֽי־עֵ֭צָה וְתוּשִׁיָּ֑ה אֲנִ֥י בִ֝ינָ֗ה לִ֣י גְבוּרָֽה׃

[Proverbs 8:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.14/)

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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:217` 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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