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title: Proverbs 14:6 (JPS 1917) — A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; but knowledge is easy… · tree and pragmatics
description: A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; but knowledge is easy unto him that hath discernment. Who acts: scorner, knowledge. Proverbs 14:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 14:6 · JPS 1917

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A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; but knowledge is easy unto him that hath discernment.

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**Who acts:** scorner, knowledge · **What happens:** seek, not find, be, have · **To what, where:** wisdom, discernment

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This is Proverbs 14:6 · 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 (scorner, knowledge), 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:380
# text = A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; but knowledge is easy unto him that hath discernment.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scorner	scorner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seeketh	seek	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	findeth	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
15	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	discernment	discernment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **seek** | present | a scorner | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **find** | present | a scorner *not said here* | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | knowledge |  |  |  |  | unto scorner; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present |  | discernment |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discernment=Patient |

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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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בִּקֶּשׁ־לֵ֣ץ חָכְמָ֣ה וָאָ֑יִן וְדַ֖עַת לְנָב֣וֹן נָקָֽל׃

[Proverbs 14:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.6/)

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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:380` 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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