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title: Proverbs 2:6 (JPS 1917) — For the LORD giveth wisdom, out of His mouth cometh knowledge and di… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the LORD giveth wisdom, out of His mouth cometh knowledge and discernment; Who acts: LORD, knowledge. Proverbs 2:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 2:6 · JPS 1917

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For the LORD giveth wisdom, out of His mouth cometh knowledge and discernment;

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**Who acts:** LORD, knowledge · **What happens:** give, come · **To what, where:** wisdom, mouth

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This is Proverbs 2:6 · 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 (LORD, 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:39
# text = For the LORD giveth wisdom, out of His mouth cometh knowledge and discernment;
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
5	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	discernment	discernment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	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 | **give** | present | the LORD | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | knowledge and discernment |  |  | LORD's mouth |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out mouth=Initial\_Location |

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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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כִּֽי־יְ֭הוָה יִתֵּ֣ן חָכְמָ֑ה מִ֝פִּ֗יו דַּ֣עַת וּתְבוּנָֽה׃

[Proverbs 2:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.6/)

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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:39` 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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