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title: Proverbs 19:24 (JPS 1917) — The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, and will not so much as b… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, and will not so much as bring it back to his mouth. Who acts: sluggard. Proverbs 19:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 19:24 · JPS 1917

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The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, and will not so much as bring it back to his mouth.

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**Who acts:** sluggard · **What happens:** bury, bring back · **To what, where:** hand, dish, mouth

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This is Proverbs 19:24 · 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 (sluggard), 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:553
# text = The sluggard burieth his hand in the dish, and will not so much as bring it back to his mouth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sluggard	sluggard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	burieth	bury	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **bury** | present | the sluggard | sluggard's hand |  | the dish |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in dish=Destination |
| 2 | **bring back** | infinitive | the sluggard *not said here* | hand |  | sluggard's mouth |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mouth=Destination |

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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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טָ֘מַ֤ן עָצֵ֣ל יָ֭דוֹ בַּצַּלָּ֑חַת גַּם־אֶל־פִּ֝֗יהוּ לֹ֣א יְשִׁיבֶֽנָּה׃

[Proverbs 19:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.24/)

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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:553` 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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