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title: Proverbs 26:11 (JPS 1917) — As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is a fool that repeateth hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is a fool that repeateth his folly. Who acts: dog, fool. Proverbs 26:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 26:11 · JPS 1917

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As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is a fool that repeateth his folly.

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**Who acts:** dog, fool · **What happens:** return, be, repeat · **To what, where:** fool, folly

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This is Proverbs 26:11 · 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 (dog, fool), 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:760
# text = As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is a fool that repeateth his folly.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	returneth	return	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	vomit	vomit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	repeateth	repeat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **return** | present | a dog |  |  |  |  | to dog's vomit *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to vomit=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a fool |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **repeat** | present | a fool | dog's folly |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folly=Eventuality |

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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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כְּ֭כֶלֶב שָׁ֣ב עַל־קֵא֑וֹ כְּ֝סִ֗יל שׁוֹנֶ֥ה בְאִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 26:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.11/)

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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:760` 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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