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title: Proverbs 19:18 (JPS 1917) — Chasten thy son, for there is hope; but set not thy heart on his des… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chasten thy son, for there is hope; but set not thy heart on his destruction. Who acts: you, hope. Proverbs 19:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 19:18 · JPS 1917

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Chasten thy son, for there is hope; but set not thy heart on his destruction.

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**Who acts:** you, hope · **What happens:** chasten, be, not set, destroy · **To what, where:** son, heart, destruction

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This is Proverbs 19:18 · 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, hope), 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:547
# text = Chasten thy son, for there is hope; but set not thy heart on his destruction.
1	Chasten	chasten	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	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chasten** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy son |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | hope |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **set** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy heart |  | hope's destruction |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme on destruction=Destination |
| 4 | **destroy** |  | hope |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act 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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יַסֵּ֣ר בִּ֭נְךָ כִּי־יֵ֣שׁ תִּקְוָ֑ה וְאֶל־הֲ֝מִית֗וֹ אַל־תִּשָּׂ֥א נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃

[Proverbs 19:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.18/)

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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:547` 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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