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title: Proverbs 25:8 (JPS 1917) — Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame. Who acts: you, thou, neighbour. Proverbs 25:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 25:8 · JPS 1917

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Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

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**Who acts:** you, thou, neighbour · **What happens:** not go, strive, not know, do, put · **To what, where:** end, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 25:8 · 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, thou, neighbour), 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:729
# text = Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	strive	strive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
21	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
25	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **not** **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth, hastily *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **strive** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **know** | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | in the end | thereof *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **put** | present · perfect | thy neighbour | thee |  |  |  | to shame | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thou=Goal |

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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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אַל־תֵּצֵ֥א לָרִ֗ב מַ֫הֵ֥ר פֶּ֣ן מַה־תַּ֭עֲשֶׂה בְּאַחֲרִיתָ֑הּ בְּהַכְלִ֖ים אֹתְךָ֣ רֵעֶֽךָ׃

[Proverbs 25:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.8/)

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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:729` 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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