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title: Proverbs 23:4 (JPS 1917) — Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom. · tree and pragmatics
description: Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom. Who acts: you. Proverbs 23:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 23:4 · JPS 1917

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Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not weary, be, cease · **To what, where:** thyself, own wisdom

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This is Proverbs 23:4 · 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), 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:652
# text = Weary not thyself to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.
1	Weary	weary	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cease	cease	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **weary** | imperative | you *not said here* | thyself |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thyself=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cease** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | thine own wisdom |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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־תִּיגַ֥ע לְֽהַעֲשִׁ֑יר מִֽבִּינָתְךָ֥ חֲדָֽל׃

[Proverbs 23:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.4/)

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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:652` 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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