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title: Proverbs 3:1 (JPS 1917) — My son, forget not my teaching; but let thy heart keep my commandmen… · tree and pragmatics
description: My son, forget not my teaching; but let thy heart keep my commandments; Who acts: you, heart, my. Proverbs 3:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 3:1 · JPS 1917

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My son, forget not my teaching; but let thy heart keep my commandments;

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**Who acts:** you, heart, my · **What happens:** not forget, let, keep, teach, command · **To what, where:** teaching, heart, commandments · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 3:1 · 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 (you, heart, my), 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:56
# text = My son, forget not my teaching; but let thy heart keep my commandments;
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	commandments	commandment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **forget** | imperative | you *not said here* | my teaching |  |  |  | My son *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy heart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | thy heart *not said here* | my commandments |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commandment=Theme |
| 4 | **teach** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **command** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «communication 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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בְּ֭נִי תּוֹרָתִ֣י אַל־תִּשְׁכָּ֑ח וּ֝מִצְוֺתַ֗י יִצֹּ֥ר לִבֶּֽךָ׃

[Proverbs 3:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.1/)

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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:56` 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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