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title: Proverbs 20:24 (JPS 1917) — A man's goings are of the LORD; how then can man look to his way? · tree and pragmatics
description: A man's goings are of the LORD; how then can man look to his way? Who acts: goings, man. Proverbs 20:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 20:24 · JPS 1917

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A man's goings are of the LORD; how then can man look to his way?

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**Who acts:** goings, man · **What happens:** be, look, go

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This is Proverbs 20:24 · 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 (goings, man), 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:582
# text = A man's goings are of the LORD; how then can man look to his way?
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	goings	going	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- 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 | **is** | present | a man's goings |  |  |  |  | of the LORD | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | can | man |  |  |  | then | to LORD's way | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to way=Theme |
| 3 | **go** |  | a man |  |  |  |  |  | nom going «act intransitive»: 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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מֵיהוָ֥המִצְעֲדֵי־גָ֑בֶר וְ֝אָדָ֗ם מַה־יָּבִ֥ין דַּרְכּֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 20:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.24/)

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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:582` 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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