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title: Proverbs 18:4 (JPS 1917) — The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters; a flowing brook, a fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters; a flowing brook, a fountain of wisdom. Who acts: words. Proverbs 18:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 18:4 · JPS 1917

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The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters; a flowing brook, a fountain of wisdom.

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**Who acts:** words · **What happens:** be, word · **To what, where:** deep waters, mouth

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This is Proverbs 18:4 · 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 (words), 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:508
# text = The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters; a flowing brook, a fountain of wisdom.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	flowing	flow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 a** | present | the words of a man's mouth | deep waters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **word** |  |  | a man's mouth |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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מַ֣יִם עֲ֭מֻקִּים דִּבְרֵ֣י פִי־אִ֑ישׁ נַ֥חַל נֹ֝בֵ֗עַ מְק֣וֹר חָכְמָֽה׃

[Proverbs 18:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.4/)

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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:508` 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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