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title: Proverbs 24:13 (JPS 1917) — My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet t… · tree and pragmatics
description: My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to thy taste; Who acts: thou, honey, honeycomb, thy. Proverbs 24:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 24:13 · JPS 1917

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My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to thy taste;

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**Who acts:** thou, honey, honeycomb, thy · **What happens:** eat, be, taste · **To what, where:** honey

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This is Proverbs 24:13 · 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 (thou, honey, honeycomb, thy), 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:699
# text = My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to thy taste;
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	honeycomb	honeycomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | infinitive | thou | honey |  |  |  | My son *vocative* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | honey |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the honeycomb |  |  |  |  | to thy taste; sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **taste** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אֱכָל־בְּנִ֣י דְבַ֣שׁ כִּי־ט֑וֹב וְנֹ֥פֶת מָ֝ת֗וֹק עַל־חִכֶּֽךָ׃

[Proverbs 24:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.13/)

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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:699` 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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