--- title: Proverbs 2:11 (JPS 1917) — Discretion shall watch over thee, discernment shall guard thee; · tree and pragmatics description: Discretion shall watch over thee, discernment shall guard thee; Who acts: Discretion, discernment. Proverbs 2:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Proverbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/) / [chapter 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/2/) / [2:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.11/) / JPS 1 # Proverbs 2:11 · JPS 1917 Discretion shall watch over thee, discernment shall guard thee; **Who acts:** Discretion, discernment · **What happens:** watch, guard · **To what, where:** thee This is Proverbs 2:11 · 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 (Discretion, discernment), 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:44 # text = Discretion shall watch over thee, discernment shall guard thee; 1 Discretion discretion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 over over ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 discernment discernment NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 guard guard VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 10 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | shall | Discretion | | | thee | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over thou=Location | | 2 | **guard** | shall | discernment | thee | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary | 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} מְ֭זִמָּה תִּשְׁמֹ֥ר עָלֶ֗יךָ תְּבוּנָ֥ה תִנְצְרֶֽכָּה׃ [Proverbs 2:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.11/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:44` 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. - ← previous: [Proverbs 2:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.43/) - next →: [Proverbs 2:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.45/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 2:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.11/)