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title: Proverbs 3:15 (JPS 1917) — She is more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desi… · tree and pragmatics
description: She is more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Who acts: truth, thou. Proverbs 3:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 3:15 · JPS 1917

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She is more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

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**Who acts:** truth, thou · **What happens:** be, desire, not compare · **To what, where:** things

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This is Proverbs 3:15 · 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 (truth, thou), 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:70
# text = She is more precious than rubies; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | truth |  |  |  |  | than rubies; precious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **desire** | can | thou | all things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **compare** | present · passive |  | all things |  |  |  | unto truth | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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יְקָ֣רָה הִ֭יא מִפְּנִינִ֑ים וְכָל־חֲ֝פָצֶ֗יךָ לֹ֣א יִֽשְׁווּ־בָֽהּ׃

[Proverbs 3:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.15/)

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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:70` 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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