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title: Proverbs 20:1 (JPS 1917) — Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whosoever reeleth the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whosoever reeleth thereby is not wise. Who acts: Wine, strong drink, whosoever. Proverbs 20:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 20:1 · JPS 1917

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Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whosoever reeleth thereby is not wise.

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**Who acts:** Wine, strong drink, whosoever · **What happens:** be, reel, not be · **To what, where:** mocker

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This is Proverbs 20:1 · 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 (Wine, strong drink, whosoever), 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:559
# text = Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whosoever reeleth thereby is not wise.
1	Wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mocker	mocker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	riotous	riotous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
13	reeleth	reel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
14	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Wine | a mocker |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | strong drink |  |  |  |  | riotous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reel** | present |  |  |  |  |  | thereby *property* | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | whosoever |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |

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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 הַ֭יַּיןהֹמֶ֣ה שֵׁכָ֑ר וְכָל־שֹׁ֥גֶה בּ֝֗וֹ לֹ֣א יֶחְכָּֽם׃

[Proverbs 20:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.1/)

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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:559` 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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