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title: Proverbs 23:31 (JPS 1917) — Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it glideth down smoothly; Who acts: thou, wine. Proverbs 23:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 23:31 · JPS 1917

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Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it glideth down smoothly;

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**Who acts:** thou, wine · **What happens:** not look, be, give, glide down · **To what, where:** colour, cup

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This is Proverbs 23:31 · 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, wine), 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:679
# text = Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it glideth down smoothly;
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	glideth	glide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **look** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  | upon the wine | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon wine=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | wine |  |  |  |  | red *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | present | wine | wine's colour |  | the cup |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme |
| 4 | **glide down** | present | wine |  |  |  |  | down, smoothly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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־תֵּ֥רֶא יַיִן֮ כִּ֪י יִתְאַ֫דָּ֥ם כִּֽי־יִתֵּ֣ן בַּכּ֣וֹס עֵינ֑וֹ יִ֝תְהַלֵּ֗ךְ בְּמֵישָׁרִֽים׃

[Proverbs 23:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.31/)

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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:679` 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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