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title: Proverbs 26:2 (JPS 1917) — As the wandering sparrow, as the flying swallow, so the curse that i… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the wandering sparrow, as the flying swallow, so the curse that is causeless shall come home. Who acts: curse. Proverbs 26:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 26:2 · JPS 1917

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As the wandering sparrow, as the flying swallow, so the curse that is causeless shall come home.

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**Who acts:** curse · **What happens:** be, come

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This is Proverbs 26:2 · 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 (curse), 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:751
# text = As the wandering sparrow, as the flying swallow, so the curse that is causeless shall come home.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wandering	wandering	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	flying	flying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	causeless	causeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **is** | present | the curse |  |  |  |  | causeless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | shall | the curse |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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כַּצִּפּ֣וֹר לָ֭נוּד כַּדְּר֣וֹר לָע֑וּף כֵּ֥ן קִֽלְלַ֥ת חִ֝נָּ֗ם ל֣וֹ תָבֹֽא׃

[Proverbs 26:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.2/)

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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:751` 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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