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title: Proverbs 22:26 (JPS 1917) — Be thou not of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be thou not of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts; Who acts: thou. Proverbs 22:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 22:26 · JPS 1917

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Be thou not of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts;

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** not be, strike, be · **To what, where:** hands, sureties

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This is Proverbs 22:26 · 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:645
# text = Be thou not of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts;
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	strike	strike	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	sureties	surety	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	debts	debt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  | of snares *= snare* | tree rules |
| 2 | **strike** | present |  | hands |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | sureties |  |  |  | for debts | tree rules |

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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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אַל־תְּהִ֥י בְתֹֽקְעֵי־כָ֑ף בַּ֝עֹרְבִ֗ים מַשָּׁאֽוֹת׃

[Proverbs 22:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.26/)

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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:645` 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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