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title: Proverbs 27:7 (JPS 1917) — The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bit… · tree and pragmatics
description: The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. Who acts: full soul, bitter thing. Proverbs 27:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 27:7 · JPS 1917

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The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

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**Who acts:** full soul, bitter thing · **What happens:** loathe, be · **To what, where:** honeycomb

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This is Proverbs 27:7 · 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 (full soul, bitter thing), 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:784
# text = The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	loatheth	loathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	honeycomb	honeycomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **loathe** | present | the full soul | a honeycomb |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honeycomb=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | every bitter thing |  |  |  |  | to the hungry soul; sweet *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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נֶ֣פֶשׁ שְׂ֭בֵעָה תָּב֣וּס נֹ֑פֶת וְנֶ֥פֶשׁ רְ֝עֵבָ֗ה כָּל־מַ֥ר מָתֽוֹק׃

[Proverbs 27:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.7/)

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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:784` 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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