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title: Proverbs 2:16 (JPS 1917) — To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the alien woman th… · tree and pragmatics
description: To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words; Who acts: alien woman, woman. Proverbs 2:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 2:16 · JPS 1917

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To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words;

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**Who acts:** alien woman, woman · **What happens:** deliver, make, word · **To what, where:** thee, words

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This is Proverbs 2:16 · 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 (alien woman, woman), 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:49
# text = To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words;
1	To	to	SCONJ	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	alien	alien	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	maketh	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag, act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliver** | to-infinitive |  | thee |  |  |  | from the strange woman; from the alien woman | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent thou=Theme from woman=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **make** | present | the alien woman | woman's words |  |  |  | smooth *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset word=Product |
| 3 | **word** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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לְ֭הַצִּ֣ילְךָ מֵאִשָּׁ֣ה זָרָ֑ה מִ֝נָּכְרִיָּ֗ה אֲמָרֶ֥יהָ הֶחֱלִֽיקָה׃

[Proverbs 2:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.16/)

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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:49` 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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