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title: Proverbs 3:3 (JPS 1917) — Let not kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let not kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of thy heart; Who acts: kindness. Proverbs 3:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 3:3 · JPS 1917

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Let not kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of thy heart;

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**Who acts:** kindness · **What happens:** let, forsake, bind, write · **To what, where:** thee, kindness

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This is Proverbs 3:3 · 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 (kindness), 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:58
# text = Let not kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of thy heart;
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	forsake	forsake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bind	bind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | kindness and truth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forsake** | infinitive | kindness and truth *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bind** | infinitive |  | kindness |  |  |  | about thy neck | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **write** | infinitive |  | kindness |  |  |  | upon the table of thy heart | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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חֶ֥סֶד וֶאֱמֶ֗ת אַֽל־יַעַ֫זְבֻ֥ךָ קָשְׁרֵ֥ם עַל־גַּרְגְּרוֹתֶ֑יךָ כָּ֝תְבֵ֗ם עַל־ל֥וּחַ לִבֶּֽךָ׃

[Proverbs 3:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.3/)

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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:58` 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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