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title: Proverbs 25:9 (JPS 1917) — Debate thy cause with thy neighbour, but reveal not the secret of an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Debate thy cause with thy neighbour, but reveal not the secret of another; Who acts: you, thy. Proverbs 25:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 25:9 · JPS 1917

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Debate thy cause with thy neighbour, but reveal not the secret of another;

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**Who acts:** you, thy · **What happens:** debate, not reveal, cause · **To what, where:** cause, secret

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This is Proverbs 25:9 · 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:730
# text = Debate thy cause with thy neighbour, but reveal not the secret of another;
1	Debate	debate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	reveal	reveal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **debate** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy cause |  |  |  | with thy neighbour | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent cause=Topic with neighbour=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **not** **reveal** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the secret of another |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic |
| 3 | **cause** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: 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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רִֽ֭יבְךָ רִ֣יב אֶת־רֵעֶ֑ךָ וְס֖וֹד אַחֵ֣ר אַל־תְּגָֽל׃

[Proverbs 25:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.9/)

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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:730` 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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