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title: Proverbs 23:3 (JPS 1917) — Be not desirous of his dainties; seeing they are deceitful food. · tree and pragmatics
description: Be not desirous of his dainties; seeing they are deceitful food. Who acts: you, dainties. Proverbs 23:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 23:3 · JPS 1917

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Be not desirous of his dainties; seeing they are deceitful food.

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**Who acts:** you, dainties · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** deceitful food

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This is Proverbs 23:3 · 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, dainties), 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:651
# text = Be not desirous of his dainties; seeing they are deceitful food.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	desirous	desirous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dainties	dainty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	seeing	see	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of man's dainties; desirous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | dainties *= dainty* | deceitful food |  |  |  |  | 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־תִּ֭תְאָולְמַטְעַמּוֹתָ֑יו וְ֝ה֗וּא לֶ֣חֶם כְּזָבִֽים׃

[Proverbs 23:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.3/)

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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:651` 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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