---
title: Proverbs 3:16 (JPS 1917) — Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honour. Who acts: Length. Proverbs 3:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.71/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Proverbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/) / [chapter 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/3/) / [3:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.16/) / JPS 1

# Proverbs 3:16 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honour.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Length · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** right hand, riches, left hand

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Proverbs 3:16 · 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 (Length), 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:71
# text = Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honour.
1	Length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	riches	riches	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Length of days |  |  | truth's right hand |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | riches and honour |  | truth's left hand |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
אֹ֣רֶךְ יָ֭מִים בִּֽימִינָ֑הּ בִּ֝שְׂמֹאולָ֗הּ עֹ֣שֶׁר וְכָבֽוֹד׃

[Proverbs 3:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.16/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:71` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Proverbs 3:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.70/)
- next →: [Proverbs 3:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.72/)
- ↑ back to [Proverbs 3:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.16/)