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title: Proverbs 2:7 (JPS 1917) — He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright, He is a shield to them th… · tree and pragmatics
description: He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright, He is a shield to them that walk in integrity; Who acts: knowledge, shield. Proverbs 2:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 2:7 · JPS 1917

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He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright, He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;

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**Who acts:** knowledge, shield · **What happens:** lay up, be, walk · **To what, where:** sound wisdom, shield, treasures, integrity

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This is Proverbs 2:7 · 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 (knowledge, shield), 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:40
# text = He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright, He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	layeth	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	sound	sound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	upright	upright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	integrity	integrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	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 | **lay up** | present | knowledge | sound wisdom |  |  |  | for the upright | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wisdom=Result for upright=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is a** | present | knowledge | a shield | treasures *= treasure* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | present | a shield |  |  | integrity |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in integrity=Trajectory |

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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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יִצְפֹּ֣ן לַ֭יְשָׁרִים תּוּשִׁיָּ֑ה מָ֝גֵ֗ן לְהֹ֣לְכֵי תֹֽם׃

[Proverbs 2:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.7/)

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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:40` 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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