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title: Proverbs 23:1 (JPS 1917) — When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well him that is bef… · tree and pragmatics
description: When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well him that is before thee; Who acts: thou, you. Proverbs 23:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 23:1 · JPS 1917

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When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well him that is before thee;

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**Who acts:** thou, you · **What happens:** sit, eat, consider, be · **To what, where:** him

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This is Proverbs 23:1 · 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, you), 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:649
# text = When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well him that is before thee;
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sittest	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	consider	consider	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thee	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	;	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	acl:relcl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a ruler | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **consider** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | before ; |  | 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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כִּֽי־תֵ֭שֵׁב לִלְח֣וֹם אֶת־מוֹשֵׁ֑ל בִּ֥ין תָּ֝בִ֗ין אֶת־אֲשֶׁ֥ר לְפָנֶֽיךָ׃

[Proverbs 23:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.1/)

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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:649` 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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