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title: Proverbs 8:29 (JPS 1917) — When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not trans… · tree and pragmatics
description: When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not transgress His commandment, when He appointed the foundations of the earth; Who acts: earth, waters. Proverbs 8:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 8:29 · JPS 1917

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When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not transgress His commandment, when He appointed the foundations of the earth;

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**Who acts:** earth, waters · **What happens:** give, not transgress, appoint, decree, command · **To what, where:** decree, sea, commandment, foundations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 8:29 · 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, waters), 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:232
# text = When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not transgress His commandment, when He appointed the foundations of the earth;
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	transgress	transgress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
16	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	foundations	foundation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | earth | earth's decree | the sea |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent decree=Theme to sea=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **transgress** | should | the waters | earth's commandment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **appoint** | past | earth | the foundations of the earth |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foundation=Theme |
| 4 | **decree** |  | earth |  |  |  |  |  | nom decree «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **command** |  | earth |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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בְּשׂ֘וּמ֤וֹ לַיָּ֨ם ׀ חֻקּ֗וֹ וּ֭מַיִם לֹ֣א יַֽעַבְרוּ־פִ֑יו בְּ֝חוּק֗וֹ מ֣וֹסְדֵי אָֽרֶץ׃

[Proverbs 8:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.29/)

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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:232` 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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