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title: Proverbs 9:16 (JPS 1917) — 'Whoso is thoughtless, let him turn in hither'; and as for him that… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Whoso is thoughtless, let him turn in hither'; and as for him that lacketh understanding, she saith to him: Who acts: Whoso, you, Folly, woman. Proverbs 9:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 9:16 · JPS 1917

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'Whoso is thoughtless, let him turn in hither'; and as for him that lacketh understanding, she saith to him:

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**Who acts:** Whoso, you, Folly, woman · **What happens:** be, let, turn in, lack, say · **To what, where:** Folly, understanding · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 9:16 · 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, you, Folly, woman), 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:255
# text = 'Whoso is thoughtless, let him turn in hither'; and as for him that lacketh understanding, she saith to him:
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	thoughtless	thoughtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lacketh	lack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Whoso |  |  |  |  | thoughtless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | Folly |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn in** | infinitive | Folly *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lack** | present |  | understanding |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | woman |  | Folly |  |  | as Folly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |

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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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מִי־פֶ֭תִי יָסֻ֣ר הֵ֑נָּה וַחֲסַר־לֵ֝֗ב וְאָ֣מְרָה לּֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 9:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.16/)

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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:255` 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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