--- title: Proverbs 22:20 (JPS 1917) — Have not I written unto thee excellent things of counsels and knowle… · tree and pragmatics description: Have not I written unto thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge; Who acts: I. Proverbs 22:20 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.639/) [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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/22/) / [22:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.20/) / JPS 1 # Proverbs 22:20 · JPS 1917 Have not I written unto thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge; **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not write · **To what, where:** excellent things This is Proverbs 22:20 · 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 (I), 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:639 # text = Have not I written unto thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge; 1 Have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 obl _ _ 7 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 counsels counsel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 knowledge knowledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed indirect=1, act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **write** | present · perfect | I | excellent things of counsels and knowledge | | | | unto thee | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | 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} הֲלֹ֤א כָתַ֣בְתִּי לְ֭ךָ שָׁלִישִׁ֑ים בְּמ֖וֹעֵצֹ֣ת וָדָֽעַת׃ [Proverbs 22:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:639` 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 22:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.638/) - next →: [Proverbs 22:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.640/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 22:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.20/)