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title: Proverbs 15:17 (JPS 1917) — Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. Who acts: dinner. Proverbs 15:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 15:17 · JPS 1917

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Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

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**Who acts:** dinner · **What happens:** be, stall

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This is Proverbs 15:17 · 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 (dinner), 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:427
# text = Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
1	Better	better	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	stalled	stall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hatred	hatred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	therewith	therewith	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | a dinner of herbs |  |  |  |  | than a stalled ox and hatred; better *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V»: 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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ט֤וֹב אֲרֻחַ֣ת יָ֭רָק וְאַהֲבָה־שָׁ֑ם מִשּׁ֥וֹר אָ֝ב֗וּס וְשִׂנְאָה־בֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 15:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.17/)

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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:427` 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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