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title: Proverbs 19:15 (JPS 1917) — Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and the idle soul shall suff… · tree and pragmatics
description: Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and the idle soul shall suffer hunger. Who acts: Slothfulness, idle soul. Proverbs 19:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 19:15 · JPS 1917

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Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

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**Who acts:** Slothfulness, idle soul · **What happens:** cast, suffer · **To what, where:** deep sleep, hunger

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This is Proverbs 19:15 · 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 (Slothfulness, idle soul), 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:544
# text = Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
1	Slothfulness	slothfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	casteth	cast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | present | Slothfulness |  |  | a deep sleep |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into sleep=Product |
| 2 | **suffer** | shall | the idle soul | hunger |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunger=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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עַ֭צְלָה תַּפִּ֣יל תַּרְדֵּמָ֑ה וְנֶ֖פֶשׁ רְמִיָּ֣ה תִרְעָֽב׃

[Proverbs 19:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.15/)

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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:544` 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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