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title: Proverbs 20:25 (JPS 1917) — It is a snare to a man rashly to say: 'Holy', and after vows to make… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a snare to a man rashly to say: 'Holy', and after vows to make inquiry. Proverbs 20:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 20:25 · JPS 1917

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It is a snare to a man rashly to say: 'Holy', and after vows to make inquiry.

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**What happens:** be, say, make · **To what, where:** snare, inquiry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 20:25 · 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:583
# text = It is a snare to a man rashly to say: 'Holy', and after vows to make inquiry.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snare	snare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	rashly	rashly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
14	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
20	inquiry	inquiry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a snare |  |  |  | to a man | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | rashly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | inquiry |  |  | after vows |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=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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מוֹקֵ֣שׁ אָ֭דָם יָ֣לַע קֹ֑דֶשׁ וְאַחַ֖ר נְדָרִ֣ים לְבַקֵּֽר׃

[Proverbs 20:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.25/)

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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:583` 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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