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title: Proverbs 8:24 (JPS 1917) — When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no f… · tree and pragmatics
description: When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Who acts: depths, fountains. Proverbs 8:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 8:24 · JPS 1917

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When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

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**Who acts:** depths, fountains · **What happens:** be, bring, abound · **To what, where:** I

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This is Proverbs 8:24 · 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 (depths, fountains), 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:227
# text = When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
17	abounding	abound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no depths |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **be** | past | no fountains |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **abound** | gerund | no fountains *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with water | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with water=Theme |

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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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בְּאֵין־תְּהֹמ֥וֹת חוֹלָ֑לְתִּי בְּאֵ֥ין מַ֝עְיָנ֗וֹת נִכְבַּדֵּי־מָֽיִם׃

[Proverbs 8:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.24/)

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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:227` 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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