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title: Proverbs 3:5 (JPS 1917) — Trust in the LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own un… · tree and pragmatics
description: Trust in the LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding. Who acts: you, thine. Proverbs 3:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 3:5 · JPS 1917

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Trust in the LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding.

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**Who acts:** you, thine · **What happens:** trust, not lean, understand · **To what, where:** own understanding

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This is Proverbs 3:5 · 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 (you, thine), 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:60
# text = Trust in the LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding.
1	Trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the LORD; with thy heart | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with heart=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **lean** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | thine own understanding |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon understanding=Location |
| 3 | **understand** |  | thine |  |  |  |  |  | nom understanding «cognition transitive»: 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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בְּטַ֣ח אֶל־יְ֭הוָה בְּכָל־לִבֶּ֑ךָ וְאֶל־בִּֽ֝ינָתְךָ֗ אַל־תִּשָּׁעֵֽן׃

[Proverbs 3:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.5/)

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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:60` 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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