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title: Proverbs 10:8 (JPS 1917) — The wise in heart will receive commandments; but a prating fool shal… · tree and pragmatics
description: The wise in heart will receive commandments; but a prating fool shall fall. Who acts: wise, prating fool. Proverbs 10:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 10:8 · JPS 1917

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The wise in heart will receive commandments; but a prating fool shall fall.

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**Who acts:** wise, prating fool · **What happens:** receive, fall · **To what, where:** commandments

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This is Proverbs 10:8 · 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 (wise, prating fool), 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:266
# text = The wise in heart will receive commandments; but a prating fool shall fall.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	_	6	aux	_	_
6	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	prating	prating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | future | the wise in heart | commandments |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | shall | a prating fool |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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חֲכַם־לֵ֭ב יִקַּ֣ח מִצְוֺ֑ת וֶאֱוִ֥יל שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם יִלָּבֵֽט׃

[Proverbs 10:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.8/)

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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:266` 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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