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title: Proverbs 2:4 (JPS 1917) — If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures; · tree and pragmatics
description: If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures; Who acts: thou. Proverbs 2:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 2:4 · JPS 1917

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If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** seek, search, hide · **To what, where:** heart

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This is Proverbs 2:4 · 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:37
# text = If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	hid	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present | thou | heart |  |  |  | as silver | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **search** | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for heart; as hid treasures | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for she=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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אִם־תְּבַקְשֶׁ֥נָּה כַכָּ֑סֶף וְֽכַמַּטְמוֹנִ֥ים תַּחְפְּשֶֽׂנָּה׃

[Proverbs 2:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.4/)

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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:37` 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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