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title: Proverbs 2:2 (JPS 1917) — So that thou make thine ear attend unto wisdom, and thy heart inclin… · tree and pragmatics
description: So that thou make thine ear attend unto wisdom, and thy heart incline to discernment; Who acts: thou, ear, heart. Proverbs 2:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 2:2 · JPS 1917

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So that thou make thine ear attend unto wisdom, and thy heart incline to discernment;

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**Who acts:** thou, ear, heart · **What happens:** make, attend, incline

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This is Proverbs 2:2 · 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 (thou, ear, heart), 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:35
# text = So that thou make thine ear attend unto wisdom, and thy heart incline to discernment;
1	So	so	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	incline	incline	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	discernment	discernment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: offer
- 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** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **attend** | infinitive | thine ear |  |  |  |  | unto wisdom | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **incline** | infinitive | thy heart |  |  |  |  | to discernment | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent to discernment=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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לְהַקְשִׁ֣יב לַֽחָכְמָ֣ה אָזְנֶ֑ךָ תַּטֶּ֥ה לִ֝בְּךָ֗ לַתְּבוּנָֽה׃

[Proverbs 2:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.2/)

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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:35` 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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