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title: Proverbs 2:3 (JPS 1917) — Yea, if thou call for understanding, and lift up thy voice for disce… · tree and pragmatics
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# Proverbs 2:3 · JPS 1917

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Yea, if thou call for understanding, and lift up thy voice for discernment;

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** call, lift up · **To what, where:** voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 2:3 · 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), 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:36
# text = Yea, if thou call for understanding, and lift up thy voice for discernment;
1	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	discernment	discernment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	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 | **call** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | for understanding | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for understanding=Recipient |
| 2 | **lift up** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | thy voice |  |  |  | for discernment | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent voice=Theme for discernment=Beneficiary |

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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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כִּ֤י אִ֣ם לַבִּינָ֣ה תִקְרָ֑א לַ֝תְּבוּנָ֗ה תִּתֵּ֥ן קוֹלֶֽךָ׃

[Proverbs 2:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.3/)

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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:36` 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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