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title: Proverbs 20:12 (JPS 1917) — The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of… · tree and pragmatics
description: The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them. Who acts: LORD. Proverbs 20:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 20:12 · JPS 1917

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The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** see, make · **To what, where:** both

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This is Proverbs 20:12 · 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 (LORD), 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:570
# text = The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	dislocated	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | present · perfect | the LORD | both |  |  |  | the hearing ear and the seeing eye *dislocated* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Product |

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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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אֹ֣זֶן שֹׁ֭מַעַת וְעַ֣יִן רֹאָ֑ה יְ֝הוָ֗ה עָשָׂ֥ה גַם־שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃

[Proverbs 20:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.12/)

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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:570` 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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