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title: Proverbs 26:9 (JPS 1917) — As a thorn that cometh into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable… · tree and pragmatics
description: As a thorn that cometh into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools. Who acts: thorn. Proverbs 26:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 26:9 · JPS 1917

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As a thorn that cometh into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

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**Who acts:** thorn · **What happens:** come, be · **To what, where:** hand, parable, mouth

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This is Proverbs 26:9 · 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 (thorn), 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:758
# text = As a thorn that cometh into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	drunkard	drunkard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | a thorn |  |  | the hand of a drunkard |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hand=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a parable |  | the mouth of fools |  | a thorn *obl* | 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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ח֭וֹחַ עָלָ֣ה בְיַד־שִׁכּ֑וֹר וּ֝מָשָׁ֗ל בְּפִ֣י כְסִילִֽים׃

[Proverbs 26:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.9/)

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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:758` 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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