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title: Proverbs 3:24 (JPS 1917) — When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid; yea, thou shalt lie… · tree and pragmatics
description: When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid; yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. Who acts: thou, sleep, thy. Proverbs 3:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 3:24 · JPS 1917

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When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid; yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

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**Who acts:** thou, sleep, thy · **What happens:** lie down, not be, be, sleep

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This is Proverbs 3:24 · 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 (thou, sleep, thy), 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:79
# text = When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid; yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	liest	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
7	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=assert, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | present | thou |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie down** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | shall | thy sleep |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sleep** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אִם־תִּשְׁכַּ֥ב לֹֽא־תִפְחָ֑ד וְ֝שָׁכַבְתָּ֗ וְֽעָרְבָ֥ה שְׁנָתֶֽךָ׃

[Proverbs 3:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.24/)

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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:79` 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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