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title: Proverbs 3:13 (JPS 1917) — Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that obtaineth und… · tree and pragmatics
description: Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that obtaineth understanding. Who acts: man. Proverbs 3:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 3:13 · JPS 1917

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Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that obtaineth understanding.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, find, obtain · **To what, where:** wisdom, understanding

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This is Proverbs 3:13 · 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 (man), 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:68
# text = Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that obtaineth understanding.
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	findeth	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	obtaineth	obtain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **is** | present | the man and the man |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present | the man and the man | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic |
| 3 | **obtain** | present | the man | understanding |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset understanding=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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אַשְׁרֵ֣י אָ֭דָם מָצָ֣א חָכְמָ֑ה וְ֝אָדָ֗ם יָפִ֥יק תְּבוּנָֽה׃

[Proverbs 3:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.13/)

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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:68` 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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