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title: Proverbs 19:25 (JPS 1917) — When thou smitest a scorner, the simple will become prudent; and whe… · tree and pragmatics
description: When thou smitest a scorner, the simple will become prudent; and when one that hath understanding is reproved, he will understand knowledge. Who acts: thou, simple. Proverbs 19:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 19:25 · JPS 1917

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When thou smitest a scorner, the simple will become prudent; and when one that hath understanding is reproved, he will understand knowledge.

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**Who acts:** thou, simple · **What happens:** smite, become, have, reprove, understand · **To what, where:** scorner, understanding, one, knowledge

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This is Proverbs 19:25 · 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 (thou, simple), 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:554
# text = When thou smitest a scorner, the simple will become prudent; and when one that hath understanding is reproved, he will understand knowledge.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	smitest	smite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	scorner	scorner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	simple	simple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	prudent	prudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
15	one	one	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	reproved	reprove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
25	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **smite** | present | thou | a scorner |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus scorner=Experiencer |
| 2 | **become** | future | the simple |  |  |  |  | prudent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | understanding |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Patient |
| 4 | **reprove** | present · passive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **understand** | future | simple | knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer knowledge=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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לֵ֣ץ תַּ֭כֶּה וּפֶ֣תִי יַעְרִ֑ם וְהוֹכִ֥יחַ לְ֝נָב֗וֹן יָבִ֥ין דָּֽעַת׃

[Proverbs 19:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.25/)

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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:554` 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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