--- title: Proverbs 24:26 (JPS 1917) — He kisseth the lips that giveth a right answer. · tree and pragmatics description: He kisseth the lips that giveth a right answer. Who acts: blessing, lips. Proverbs 24:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.713/) [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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/24/) / [24:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.26/) / JPS 1 # Proverbs 24:26 · JPS 1917 He kisseth the lips that giveth a right answer. **Who acts:** blessing, lips · **What happens:** kiss, give · **To what, where:** lips, right answer This is Proverbs 24:26 · 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 (blessing, lips), 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:713 # text = He kisseth the lips that giveth a right answer. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 kisseth kiss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 giveth give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kiss** | present | blessing | the lips | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Co-Agent | | 2 | **give** | present | the lips | a right answer | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | 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} שְׂפָתַ֥יִם יִשָּׁ֑ק מֵ֝שִׁ֗יב דְּבָרִ֥ים נְכֹחִֽים׃ [Proverbs 24:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.26/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:713` 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. - ← previous: [Proverbs 24:25 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.712/) - next →: [Proverbs 24:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.714/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 24:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.26/)