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title: Proverbs 11:22 (JPS 1917) — As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman that turnet… · tree and pragmatics
description: As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman that turneth aside from discretion. Who acts: fair woman. Proverbs 11:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 11:22 · JPS 1917

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As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman that turneth aside from discretion.

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**Who acts:** fair woman · **What happens:** be, turn · **To what, where:** fair woman, discretion

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This is Proverbs 11:22 · 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 (fair 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:312
# text = As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman that turneth aside from discretion.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	swine	swine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	snout	snout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	turneth	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	discretion	discretion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 |  | a fair woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present | a fair woman |  |  | discretion |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from discretion=Trajectory |

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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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נֶ֣זֶם זָ֭הָב בְּאַ֣ף חֲזִ֑יר אִשָּׁ֥ה יָ֝פָ֗ה וְסָ֣רַת טָֽעַם׃

[Proverbs 11:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.22/)

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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:312` 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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