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title: Proverbs 20:29 (JPS 1917) — The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men… · tree and pragmatics
description: The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the hoary head. Who acts: glory, beauty, young men. Proverbs 20:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 20:29 · JPS 1917

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The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

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**Who acts:** glory, beauty, young men · **What happens:** be, glory · **To what, where:** strength, hoary head

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This is Proverbs 20:29 · 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 (glory, beauty, young men), 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:587
# text = The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the hoary head.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	hoary	hoary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | the glory of young men | Mercy's strength and the hoary head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the beauty of old men | the hoary head |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **glory** |  | young men |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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תִּפְאֶ֣רֶת בַּחוּרִ֣ים כֹּחָ֑ם וַהֲדַ֖ר זְקֵנִ֣ים שֵׂיבָֽה׃

[Proverbs 20:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.29/)

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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:587` 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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