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title: Proverbs 8:35 (JPS 1917) — For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of the LORD. · tree and pragmatics
description: For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of the LORD. Who acts: whoso. Proverbs 8:35 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 8:35 · JPS 1917

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For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

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**Who acts:** whoso · **What happens:** find, obtain, favour · **To what, where:** me, life, favour, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 8:35 · 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 (whoso), 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:238
# text = For whoso findeth me findeth life, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	findeth	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	csubj	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	findeth	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	obtaineth	obtain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **find** | present | whoso | me |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | present |  | life |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |
| 3 | **obtain** | present |  | favour of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset favour=Theme |
| 4 | **favour** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling 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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כִּ֣י מֹ֭צְאִי מָצָ֣אחַיִּ֑ים וַיָּ֥פֶק רָ֝צ֗וֹן מֵיְהוָֽה׃

[Proverbs 8:35: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.35/)

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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:238` 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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