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title: Proverbs 20:21 (JPS 1917) — An estate may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereo… · tree and pragmatics
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# Proverbs 20:21 · JPS 1917

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An estate may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

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**What happens:** get, not bless · **To what, where:** estate, beginning, end

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This is Proverbs 20:21 · 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: 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:579
# text = An estate may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	estate	estate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	gotten	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed hedge=1, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | may · passive |  | a estate |  |  | at the beginning | hastily *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at beginning=Asset |
| 2 | **not** **bless** | shall · passive |  | the end |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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נַ֭חֲלָה מְבֹהֶ֣לֶת בָּרִאשֹׁנָ֑ה וְ֝אַחֲרִיתָ֗הּ לֹ֣א תְבֹרָֽךְ׃

[Proverbs 20:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.21/)

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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:579` 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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