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title: Proverbs 16:3 (JPS 1917) — Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. · tree and pragmatics
description: Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. Who acts: you, thy. Proverbs 16:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 16:3 · JPS 1917

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Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

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**Who acts:** you, thy · **What happens:** commit, establish, work, think · **To what, where:** works, thoughts

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This is Proverbs 16:3 · 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 (you, thy), 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:446
# text = Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
1	Commit	commit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **commit** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy works |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | shall · passive |  | thy thoughts |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **work** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **think** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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גֹּ֣ל אֶל־יְהוָ֣ה מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ וְ֝יִכֹּ֗נוּ מַחְשְׁבֹתֶֽיךָ׃

[Proverbs 16:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.3/)

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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:446` 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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