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title: Proverbs 14:4 (JPS 1917) — Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; but much increase is by the st… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; but much increase is by the strength of the ox. Who acts: crib, much increase. Proverbs 14:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 14:4 · JPS 1917

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Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

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**Who acts:** crib, much increase · **What happens:** be

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This is Proverbs 14:4 · 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 (crib, much increase), 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:378
# text = Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crib	crib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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** | present | the crib |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | much increase |  |  |  |  | by the strength; of the ox | tree rules |

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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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בְּאֵ֣ין אֲ֭לָפִים אֵב֣וּס בָּ֑ר וְרָב־תְּ֝בוּא֗וֹת בְּכֹ֣חַ שֽׁוֹר׃

[Proverbs 14:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.4/)

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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:378` 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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