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title: Proverbs 1:22 (JPS 1917) — And how long will scorners delight them in scorning, and fools hate… · tree and pragmatics
description: And how long will scorners delight them in scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Who acts: scorners, fools. Proverbs 1:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 1:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And how long will scorners delight them in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

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**Who acts:** scorners, fools · **What happens:** delight, hate · **To what, where:** words, scorning, knowledge

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This is Proverbs 1:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (scorners, fools), 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:22
# text = And how long will scorners delight them in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	scorners	scorner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	delight	delight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	scorning	scorning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **delight** | future | scorners | words *= word* |  | scorning |  | long *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hate** | present | fools | knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knowledge=Stimulus |

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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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עַד־מָתַ֣י ׀ פְּתָיִם֮ תְּֽאֵהֲב֫וּ פֶ֥תִי וְלֵצִ֗ים לָ֭צוֹן חָמְד֣וּ לָהֶ֑ם וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים יִשְׂנְאוּ־דָֽעַת׃

[Proverbs 1:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.22/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. ['How long, ye thoughtless, will ye love thoughtlessness?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.21/)
2. **And how long will scorners delight them in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?**

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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:22` 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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