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title: Proverbs 10:1 (JPS 1917) — A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of h… · tree and pragmatics
description: A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother. Who acts: wise son, foolish son. Proverbs 10:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 10:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

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**Who acts:** wise son, foolish son · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** glad father, grief

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This is Proverbs 10:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (wise son, foolish son), 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:259
# text = A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	maketh	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **make** | present | a wise son | a glad father |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a foolish son | the grief |  |  |  | of son's mother | tree rules |

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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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מִשְׁלֵ֗י שְׁלֹ֫מֹ֥הפ בֵּ֣ן חָ֭כָם יְשַׂמַּח־אָ֑ב וּבֵ֥ן כְּ֝סִ֗יל תּוּגַ֥ת אִמּֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 10:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [The proverbs of Solomon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.258/)
2. **A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.**

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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:259` 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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