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title: Proverbs 23:10 (JPS 1917) — Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless; Who acts: you. Proverbs 23:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 23:10 · JPS 1917

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Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless;

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not remove, not enter · **To what, where:** ancient landmark, fields

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This is Proverbs 23:10 · 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:658
# text = Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless;
1	Remove	remove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	landmark	landmark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	enter	enter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fatherless	fatherless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **remove** | imperative | you *not said here* | the ancient landmark |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landmark=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **enter** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the fields of the fatherless |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial\_Location |

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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־תַּ֭סֵּג גְּב֣וּל עוֹלָ֑ם וּבִשְׂדֵ֥י יְ֝תוֹמִ֗ים אַל־תָּבֹֽא׃

[Proverbs 23:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.10/)

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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:658` 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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