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title: Proverbs 27:2 (JPS 1917) — Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. Who acts: man. Proverbs 27:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 27:2 · JPS 1917

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Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** let, praise · **To what, where:** thee

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This is Proverbs 27:2 · 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 (man), 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:779
# text = Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
5	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
21	.	.	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 | another man and thine own mouth and a stranger and thine own lips |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **praise** | infinitive | another man and thine own mouth and a stranger and thine own lips *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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יְהַלֶּלְךָ֣ זָ֣ר וְלֹא־פִ֑יךָ נָ֝כְרִ֗י וְאַל־שְׂפָתֶֽיךָ׃

[Proverbs 27:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.2/)

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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:779` 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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