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title: Proverbs 27:9 (JPS 1917) — Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so doth the sweetness of a m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. Who acts: Ointment. Proverbs 27:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 27:9 · JPS 1917

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Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

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**Who acts:** Ointment · **What happens:** rejoice · **To what, where:** heart

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This is Proverbs 27:9 · 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 (Ointment), 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:786
# text = Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
1	Ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	hearty	hearty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **rejoice** | present | Ointment and perfume | the heart |  |  |  |  | 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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שֶׁ֣מֶן וּ֭קְטֹרֶת יְשַׂמַּֽח־לֵ֑ב וּמֶ֥תֶק רֵ֝עֵ֗הוּ מֵֽעֲצַת־נָֽפֶשׁ׃

[Proverbs 27:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.9/)

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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:786` 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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