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title: Proverbs 1:5 (JPS 1917) — That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and the man of… · tree and pragmatics
description: That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and the man of understanding may attain unto wise counsels; Who acts: wise man, man. Proverbs 1:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 1:5 · JPS 1917

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That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and the man of understanding may attain unto wise counsels;

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**Who acts:** wise man, man · **What happens:** hear, increase, attain · **To what, where:** learning

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This is Proverbs 1:5 · 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 (wise man, man), 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:4
# text = That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and the man of understanding may attain unto wise counsels;
1	That	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	attain	attain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	counsels	counsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **hear** | may | the wise man |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **increase** | infinitive | the wise man *not said here* |  |  | learning |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **attain** | may | the man of understanding |  |  |  |  | unto wise counsels | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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יִשְׁמַ֣ע חָ֭כָם וְי֣וֹסֶף לֶ֑קַח וְ֝נָב֗וֹן תַּחְבֻּל֥וֹת יִקְנֶֽה׃

[Proverbs 1:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.5/)

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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:4` 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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