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title: Proverbs 15:32 (JPS 1917) — He that refuseth correction despiseth his own soul; but he that hear… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that refuseth correction despiseth his own soul; but he that hearkeneth to reproof getteth understanding. Who acts: ear. Proverbs 15:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 15:32 · JPS 1917

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He that refuseth correction despiseth his own soul; but he that hearkeneth to reproof getteth understanding.

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**Who acts:** ear · **What happens:** refuse, despise, hearken, get · **To what, where:** correction, own soul, understanding

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This is Proverbs 15:32 · 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 (ear), 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:442
# text = He that refuseth correction despiseth his own soul; but he that hearkeneth to reproof getteth understanding.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	refuseth	refuse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	correction	correction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	despiseth	despise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hearkeneth	hearken	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	reproof	reproof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	getteth	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | present |  | correction |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent correction=Theme |
| 2 | **despise** | present | ear | ear's own soul |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soul=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hearken** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to reproof | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | present | ear | understanding |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer understanding=Stimulus |

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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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פּוֹרֵ֣עַ מ֭וּסָרמוֹאֵ֣ס נַפְשׁ֑וֹ וְשׁוֹמֵ֥עַ תּ֝וֹכַ֗חַת ק֣וֹנֶה לֵּֽב׃

[Proverbs 15:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.32/)

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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:442` 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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