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title: Proverbs 24:27 (JPS 1917) — Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field;… · tree and pragmatics
description: Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house. Who acts: you, thy. Proverbs 24:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 24:27 · JPS 1917

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Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house.

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**Who acts:** you, thy · **What happens:** prepare, make, build, work · **To what, where:** work, answer, field, house

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This is Proverbs 24:27 · 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 (you, 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:714
# text = Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house.
1	Prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	without	without	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	9	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
19	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **prepare** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy work |  |  |  | without *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | answer |  | the field |  | fit *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **build** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy house |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |
| 4 | **work** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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הָ֘כֵ֤ן בַּח֨וּץ ׀ מְלַאכְתֶּ֗ךָ וְעַתְּדָ֣הּ בַּשָּׂדֶ֣ה לָ֑ךְ אַ֝חַ֗ר וּבָנִ֥יתָ בֵיתֶֽךָ׃פ

[Proverbs 24:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.27/)

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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:714` 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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