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title: Proverbs 27:11 (JPS 1917) — My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that… · tree and pragmatics
description: My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that taunteth me. Who acts: you, I. Proverbs 27:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 27:11 · JPS 1917

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My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that taunteth me.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** be, make, answer, taunt · **To what, where:** heart, friend, me

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This is Proverbs 27:11 · 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 (you, I), 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:788
# text = My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that taunteth me.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	taunteth	taunt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | My son *vocative*; wise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my heart |  |  |  | glad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heart=Product |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | may | I |  | friend |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 4 | **taunt** | present |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

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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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חֲכַ֣ם בְּ֭נִי וְשַׂמַּ֣ח לִבִּ֑י וְאָשִׁ֖יבָה חֹרְפִ֣י דָבָֽר׃

[Proverbs 27:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.11/)

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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:788` 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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