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title: Proverbs 26:1 (JPS 1917) — As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly f… · tree and pragmatics
description: As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool. Who acts: honour. Proverbs 26:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 26:1 · JPS 1917

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As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.

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**Who acts:** honour · **What happens:** not be

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This is Proverbs 26:1 · 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 (honour), 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:750
# text = As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	seemly	seemly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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** **is** | present | honour |  |  |  |  | for a fool; seemly *property* | 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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כַּשֶּׁ֤לֶג ׀ בַּקַּ֗יִץ וְכַמָּטָ֥ר בַּקָּצִ֑יר כֵּ֤ן לֹא־נָאוֶ֖ה לִכְסִ֣יל כָּבֽוֹד׃

[Proverbs 26:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.1/)

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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:750` 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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