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title: Proverbs 15:3 (JPS 1917) — The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch upon the evil… · tree and pragmatics
description: The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch upon the evil and the good. Who acts: eyes. Proverbs 15:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 15:3 · JPS 1917

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The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch upon the evil and the good.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** be, keep · **To what, where:** place, watch, evil

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This is Proverbs 15:3 · 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 (eyes), 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:413
# text = The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch upon the evil and the good.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
12	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | present | the eyes of the LORD |  |  | every place |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | the eyes of the LORD *not said here* | watch |  | the evil |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme upon evil=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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בְּֽכָל־מָ֭קוֹם עֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה צֹ֝פ֗וֹת רָעִ֥ים וטוֹבִֽים׃

[Proverbs 15:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.3/)

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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:413` 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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