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title: Proverbs 15:15 (JPS 1917) — All the days of the poor are evil; but he that is of a merry heart h… · tree and pragmatics
description: All the days of the poor are evil; but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. Who acts: days, heart. Proverbs 15:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 15:15 · JPS 1917

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All the days of the poor are evil; but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

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**Who acts:** days, heart · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** continual feast

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This is Proverbs 15:15 · 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 (days, heart), 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:425
# text = All the days of the poor are evil; but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	continual	continual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | all days of the poor |  |  |  |  | evil *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of a merry heart | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | heart | a continual feast |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=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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כָּל־יְמֵ֣י עָנִ֣י רָעִ֑ים וְטֽוֹב־לֵ֝֗ב מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה תָמִֽיד׃

[Proverbs 15:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.15/)

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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:425` 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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