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title: Proverbs 12:1 (JPS 1917) — Whoso loveth knowledge loveth correction; but he that is brutish hat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whoso loveth knowledge loveth correction; but he that is brutish hateth reproof. Who acts: Whoso, he. Proverbs 12:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 12:1 · JPS 1917

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Whoso loveth knowledge loveth correction; but he that is brutish hateth reproof.

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**Who acts:** Whoso, he · **What happens:** love, be, hate · **To what, where:** knowledge, correction, reproof

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This is Proverbs 12:1 · 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, he), 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:322
# text = Whoso loveth knowledge loveth correction; but he that is brutish hateth reproof.
1	Whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	loveth	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	nsubj	_	_
3	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	loveth	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	correction	correction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	brutish	brutish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	hateth	hate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	reproof	reproof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | Whoso | knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knowledge=Stimulus |
| 2 | **love** | present |  | correction |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer correction=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | brutish *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hate** | present | he | reproof |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reproof=Stimulus |

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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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אֹהֵ֣ב מ֭וּסָראֹ֣הֵֽב דָּ֑עַת וְשֹׂנֵ֖א תוֹכַ֣חַת בָּֽעַר׃

[Proverbs 12:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.1/)

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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:322` 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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