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title: Proverbs 9:9 (JPS 1917) — Give to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a righteous man,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Give to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning. Who acts: you, man. Proverbs 9:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 9:9 · JPS 1917

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Give to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

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**Who acts:** you, man · **What happens:** give, be, teach, increase · **To what, where:** wise man, righteous man, learning

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This is Proverbs 9:9 · 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 (you, 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:248
# text = Give to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	teach	teach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- 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 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a wise man |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | future | man |  |  |  | yet | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  | a righteous man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 4 | **increase** | future | man |  |  | learning |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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תֵּ֣ן לְ֭חָכָם וְיֶחְכַּם־ע֑וֹד הוֹדַ֥ע לְ֝צַדִּ֗יק וְי֣וֹסֶף לֶֽקַח׃פ

[Proverbs 9:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.9/)

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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:248` 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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