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title: Proverbs 19:8 (JPS 1917) — He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul; he that keepeth understa… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul; he that keepeth understanding shall find good. Who acts: poor. Proverbs 19:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 19:8 · JPS 1917

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He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul; he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

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**Who acts:** poor · **What happens:** get, love, keep, find · **To what, where:** wisdom, own soul, understanding

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This is Proverbs 19:8 · 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 (poor), 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:537
# text = He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul; he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
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	getteth	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	loveth	love	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	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	keepeth	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present |  | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus |
| 2 | **love** | present | poor | poor's own soul |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soul=Stimulus |
| 3 | **keep** | present |  | understanding |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | shall | poor |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=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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קֹֽנֶה־לֵּ֭ב אֹהֵ֣ב נַפְשׁ֑וֹ שֹׁמֵ֥ר תְּ֝בוּנָ֗ה לִמְצֹא־טֽוֹב׃

[Proverbs 19:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.8/)

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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:537` 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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