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title: Proverbs 8:26 (JPS 1917) — While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the begi… · tree and pragmatics
description: While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. Who acts: earth. Proverbs 8:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 8:26 · JPS 1917

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While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

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**Who acts:** earth · **What happens:** not make, begin · **To what, where:** earth, dust

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This is Proverbs 8:26 · 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 (earth), 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:229
# text = While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **make** | past · perfect | earth | the earth nor the fields nor the beginning of the dust of the world |  |  | yet |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Product |
| 2 | **begin** |  |  | the dust of the world |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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־לֹ֣א עָ֭שָׂה אֶ֣רֶץ וְחוּצ֑וֹת וְ֝רֹ֗אשׁ עָפְר֥וֹתתֵּבֵֽל׃

[Proverbs 8:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.26/)

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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:229` 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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