--- title: Proverbs 3:4 (JPS 1917) — So shalt thou find grace and good favour in the sight of God and man. · tree and pragmatics description: So shalt thou find grace and good favour in the sight of God and man. Who acts: thou. Proverbs 3:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Proverbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/) / [chapter 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/3/) / [3:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.4/) / JPS 1 # Proverbs 3:4 · JPS 1917 So shalt thou find grace and good favour in the sight of God and man. **Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** find, sight · **To what, where:** grace, sight, God This is Proverbs 3:4 · 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 (thou), 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:59 # text = So shalt thou find grace and good favour in the sight of God and man. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | shall | thou | grace and good favour | | the sight of God and man | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grace=Topic | | 2 | **sight** | | | God and man | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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} וּמְצָא־חֵ֖ן וְשֵֽׂכֶל־ט֑וֹב בְּעֵינֵ֖י אֱלֹהִ֣ים וְאָדָֽם׃פ [Proverbs 3:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:59` 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. - ← previous: [Proverbs 3:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.58/) - next →: [Proverbs 3:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.60/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 3:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.4/)