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title: Proverbs 23:29 (JPS 1917) — Who crieth: 'Woe'? who: 'Alas'? who hath contentions? who hath ravin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who crieth: 'Woe'? who: 'Alas'? who hath contentions? who hath raving? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? Proverbs 23:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 23:29 · JPS 1917

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Who crieth: 'Woe'? who: 'Alas'? who hath contentions? who hath raving? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

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**What happens:** cry, have, rave · **To what, where:** contentions, wounds, redness

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This is Proverbs 23:29 · 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: 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:677
# text = Who crieth: 'Woe'? who: 'Alas'? who hath contentions? who hath raving? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crieth	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	parataxis	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	8	parataxis	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	contentions	contention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
19	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	raving	rave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	obj	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	nsubj	_	_
29	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	redness	redness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- 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 | **cry** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | contentions |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contention=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rave** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | present |  | wounds |  |  |  | without cause | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | present |  | redness of eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent redness=Patient |

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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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לְמִ֨י א֥וֹי לְמִ֪י אֲב֡וֹי לְמִ֤י מִדְיָנִ֨ים ׀ לְמִ֥י שִׂ֗יחַ לְ֭מִי פְּצָעִ֣ים חִנָּ֑ם לְ֝מִ֗י חַכְלִל֥וּת עֵינָֽיִם׃

[Proverbs 23:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.29/)

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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:677` 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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