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title: Proverbs 23:8 (JPS 1917) — The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy s… · tree and pragmatics
description: The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. Who acts: thou, thy. Proverbs 23:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 23:8 · JPS 1917

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The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

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**Who acts:** thou, thy · **What happens:** eat, vomit up, lose, word · **To what, where:** morsel, sweet words

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This is Proverbs 23:8 · 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, thy), 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:656
# text = The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
9	vomit	vomit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present · perfect | thou | the morsel |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 2 | **vomit up** | shall | thou | the morsel |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent morsel=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | thy sweet words |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
| 4 | **word** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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פִּֽתְּךָ־אָכַ֥לְתָּ תְקִיאֶ֑נָּה וְ֝שִׁחַ֗תָּ דְּבָרֶ֥יךָ הַנְּעִימִֽים׃

[Proverbs 23:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.8/)

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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:656` 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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