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title: Proverbs 3:2 (JPS 1917) — For length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to t… · tree and pragmatics
description: For length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to thee. Who acts: length. Proverbs 3:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 3:2 · JPS 1917

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For length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to thee.

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**Who acts:** length · **What happens:** add

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This is Proverbs 3:2 · 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 (length), 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:57
# text = For length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to thee.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | future | length |  |  |  |  | for length of days and years of life and peace; to thee | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to thou=Co-Patient |

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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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כִּ֤י אֹ֣רֶךְ יָ֭מִים וּשְׁנ֣וֹת חַיִּ֑ים וְ֝שָׁל֗וֹם יוֹסִ֥יפוּ לָֽךְ׃

[Proverbs 3:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.2/)

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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:57` 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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