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title: Proverbs 23:13 (JPS 1917) — Withhold not correction from the child; for though thou beat him wit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Withhold not correction from the child; for though thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. Who acts: you, thou, child. Proverbs 23:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 23:13 · JPS 1917

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Withhold not correction from the child; for though thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

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**Who acts:** you, thou, child · **What happens:** not withhold, beat, not die · **To what, where:** correction, child

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This is Proverbs 23:13 · 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, thou, child), 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:661
# text = Withhold not correction from the child; for though thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
1	Withhold	withhold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	correction	correction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	beat	beat	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **withhold** | imperative | you *not said here* | correction |  |  |  | from the child | tree rules |
| 2 | **beat** | infinitive | thou | child |  |  |  | with the rod | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with rod=Instrument |
| 3 | **not** **die** | future | child |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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־תִּמְנַ֣ע מִנַּ֣עַר מוּסָ֑ר כִּֽי־תַכֶּ֥נּוּ בַ֝שֵּׁ֗בֶט לֹ֣א יָמֽוּת׃

[Proverbs 23:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.13/)

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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:661` 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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