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title: Proverbs 25:17 (JPS 1917) — Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour's house; lest he be sated wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour's house; lest he be sated with thee, and hate thee. Who acts: foot. Proverbs 25:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 25:17 · JPS 1917

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Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour's house; lest he be sated with thee, and hate thee.

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**Who acts:** foot · **What happens:** let, sate, hate · **To what, where:** house, foot, thee

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This is Proverbs 25:17 · 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 (foot), 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:738
# text = Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour's house; lest he be sated with thee, and hate thee.
1	Let	let	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	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	sated	sate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	hate	hate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **let** | infinitive | thy foot | thy neighbour's house |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sate** | infinitive · passive |  | foot |  |  |  | with thee | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme with thou=Instrument |
| 3 | **hate** | infinitive |  | thee |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus |

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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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הֹקַ֣ר רַ֭גְלְךָ מִבֵּ֣ית רֵעֶ֑ךָ פֶּן־יִ֝שְׂבָּעֲךָ֗ וּשְׂנֵאֶֽךָ׃

[Proverbs 25:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.17/)

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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:738` 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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