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title: Proverbs 8:34 (JPS 1917) — Happy is the man that hearkeneth to me, watching daily at my gates,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Happy is the man that hearkeneth to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. Who acts: man. Proverbs 8:34 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 8:34 · JPS 1917

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Happy is the man that hearkeneth to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, hearken, watch, wait · **To what, where:** me, gates, posts

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This is Proverbs 8:34 · 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 (man), 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:237
# text = Happy is the man that hearkeneth to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hearkeneth	hearken	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the man |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hearken** | present | the man |  | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | the man *not said here* |  |  | my gates |  | daily *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at gate=Location |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund | the man *not said here* |  |  | the posts of my doors |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at post=Location |

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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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אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי אָדָם֮ שֹׁמֵ֪עַֽ֫ לִ֥י לִשְׁקֹ֣ד עַל־דַּ֭לְתֹתַי י֤וֹם ׀ י֑וֹם לִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ר מְזוּזֹ֥ת פְּתָחָֽי׃

[Proverbs 8:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.34/)

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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:237` 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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