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title: Proverbs 23:5 (JPS 1917) — Wilt thou set thine eyes upon it? it is gone; for riches certainly m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wilt thou set thine eyes upon it? it is gone; for riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flieth toward heaven. Who acts: thou, wisdom, riches, eagle. Proverbs 23:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 23:5 · JPS 1917

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Wilt thou set thine eyes upon it? it is gone; for riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.

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**Who acts:** thou, wisdom, riches, eagle · **What happens:** set, be, make, fly · **To what, where:** eyes, wisdom, wings, riches, heaven

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This is Proverbs 23:5 · 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, wisdom, riches, eagle), 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:653
# text = Wilt thou set thine eyes upon it? it is gone; for riches certainly make themselves wings, like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
1	Wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	iobj	_	_
18	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	flieth	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1, form=q, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | future | thou | thine eyes |  | wisdom |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon it=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present | wisdom |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | riches | wings | riches *= rich* |  |  | like a eagle; certainly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Beneficiary wing=Product |
| 4 | **fly** | present | a eagle |  |  | heaven |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward heaven=Trajectory |

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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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הֲתָ֤עִיף עֵינֶ֥יךָ בּ֗וֹ וְֽאֵ֫ינֶ֥נּוּ כִּ֤י עָשֹׂ֣ה יַעֲשֶׂה־לּ֣וֹ כְנָפַ֑יִם כְּ֝נֶ֗שֶׁר יָע֥וּף הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃פ

[Proverbs 23:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.5/)

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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:653` 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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