---
title: Proverbs 23:22 (JPS 1917) — Hearken unto thy father that begot thee, and despise not thy mother… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hearken unto thy father that begot thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. Who acts: you, father, drowsiness. Proverbs 23:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.670/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Proverbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/) / [chapter 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/23/) / [23:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.22/) / JPS 1

# Proverbs 23:22 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hearken unto thy father that begot thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, father, drowsiness · **What happens:** hearken, beget, not despise, be · **To what, where:** thee, mother

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Proverbs 23:22 · 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, father, drowsiness), 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:670
# text = Hearken unto thy father that begot thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
1	Hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	begot	beget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	despise	despise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=request

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto thy father | tree rules |
| 2 | **beget** | past | thy father | thee |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **despise** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy mother |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | drowsiness |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
שְׁמַ֣ע לְ֭אָבִיךָ זֶ֣ה יְלָדֶ֑ךָ וְאַל־תָּ֝ב֗וּז כִּֽי־זָקְנָ֥ה אִמֶּֽךָ׃

[Proverbs 23:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.22/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:670` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Proverbs 23:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.669/)
- next →: [Proverbs 23:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.671/)
- ↑ back to [Proverbs 23:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.22/)