--- title: Proverbs 8:17 (JPS 1917) — I love them that love me, and those that seek me earnestly shall fin… · tree and pragmatics description: I love them that love me, and those that seek me earnestly shall find me. Who acts: I, those. Proverbs 8:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.220/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Proverbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/) / [chapter 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/8/) / [8:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.17/) / JPS 1 # Proverbs 8:17 · JPS 1917 I love them that love me, and those that seek me earnestly shall find me. **Who acts:** I, those · **What happens:** love, seek, find · **To what, where:** princes, me This is Proverbs 8:17 · 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, those), 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:220 # text = I love them that love me, and those that seek me earnestly shall find me. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 9 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 seek seek VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 earnestly earnestly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | present | I | princes *= prince* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 2 | **love** | present | | me | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 3 | **seek** | present | | me | | | | earnestly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 4 | **find** | shall | those | me | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | 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} אֲ֭נִי אֹהֲבַ֣י אֵהָ֑ב וּ֝מְשַׁחֲרַ֗י יִמְצָאֻֽנְנִי׃ [Proverbs 8:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.17/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:220` 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. - ← previous: [Proverbs 8:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.219/) - next →: [Proverbs 8:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.221/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 8:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.17/)