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title: Proverbs 8:28 (JPS 1917) — When He made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: When He made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep showed their might, Who acts: earth, fountains. Proverbs 8:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 8:28 · JPS 1917

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When He made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep showed their might,

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**Who acts:** earth, fountains · **What happens:** make, show · **To what, where:** skies, might

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This is Proverbs 8:28 · 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, 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:231
# text = When He made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep showed their might,
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	above	above	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	deep	deep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	might	might	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	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 | **make** | past | earth | the skies |  |  |  | firm *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Product |
| 2 | **show** | past | the fountains of the deep | fountains's might |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent might=Recipient |

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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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בְּאַמְּצ֣וֹ שְׁחָקִ֣ים מִמָּ֑עַל בַּ֝עֲז֗וֹז עִינ֥וֹת תְּהוֹם׃

[Proverbs 8:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.28/)

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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:231` 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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