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title: Proverbs 25:16 (JPS 1917) — Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. Who acts: thou. Proverbs 25:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 25:16 · JPS 1917

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Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** find, eat, be, fill, vomit · **To what, where:** honey, thou

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This is Proverbs 25:16 · 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 (thou), 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:737
# text = Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
1	Hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
19	therewith	therewith	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	vomit	vomit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · perfect | thou | honey |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for thee; sufficient *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fill** | infinitive · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | therewith *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **vomit** | infinitive |  | honey |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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דְּבַ֣שׁ מָ֭צָאתָ אֱכֹ֣ל דַּיֶּ֑ךָּ פֶּן־תִּ֝שְׂבָּעֶ֗נּוּ וַהֲקֵֽאתֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 25:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.16/)

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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:737` 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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