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title: Proverbs 25:12 (JPS 1917) — As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise r… · tree and pragmatics
description: As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear. Proverbs 25:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 25:12 · JPS 1917

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As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** wise reprover

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This is Proverbs 25:12 · 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: 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:733
# text = As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ornament	ornament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	reprover	reprover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	obedient	obedient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is a** | present |  | a wise reprover |  |  |  | as a ear ring of gold and a ornament of fine gold; upon a obedient ear | tree rules |

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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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נֶ֣זֶם זָ֭הָב וַחֲלִי־כָ֑תֶם מוֹכִ֥יחַ חָ֝כָ֗ם עַל־אֹ֥זֶן שֹׁמָֽעַת׃

[Proverbs 25:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.12/)

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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:733` 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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