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title: Proverbs 9:3 (JPS 1917) — She hath sent forth her maidens, she calleth, upon the highest place… · tree and pragmatics
description: She hath sent forth her maidens, she calleth, upon the highest places of the city: Who acts: Wisdom. Proverbs 9:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 9:3 · JPS 1917

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She hath sent forth her maidens, she calleth, upon the highest places of the city:

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**Who acts:** Wisdom · **What happens:** send, call · **To what, where:** maidens · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 9:3 · 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 (Wisdom), 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:242
# text = She hath sent forth her maidens, she calleth, upon the highest places of the city:
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	calleth	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
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 | **send** | present · perfect | Wisdom | Wisdom's maidens |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present | Wisdom |  |  |  |  | upon the highest places of the city | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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שָֽׁלְחָ֣ה נַעֲרֹתֶ֣יהָ תִקְרָ֑א עַל־גַּ֝פֵּ֗י מְרֹ֣מֵי קָֽרֶת׃

[Proverbs 9:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.3/)

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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:242` 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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