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title: Proverbs 9:10 (JPS 1917) — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge o… · tree and pragmatics
description: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the All-holy is understanding. Who acts: fear, knowledge. Proverbs 9:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 9:10 · JPS 1917

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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the All-holy is understanding.

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**Who acts:** fear, knowledge · **What happens:** be, fear · **To what, where:** beginning, understanding, LORD

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This is Proverbs 9:10 · 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 (fear, knowledge), 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:249
# text = The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the All-holy is understanding.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	All	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | the fear of the LORD | the beginning and understanding |  |  |  | of wisdom | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the knowledge of the holy | understanding |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fear** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom fear «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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תְּחִלַּ֣ת חָ֭כְמָה יִרְאַ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה וְדַ֖עַת קְדֹשִׁ֣ים בִּינָֽה׃

[Proverbs 9:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.10/)

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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:249` 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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