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title: Proverbs 27:19 (JPS 1917) — As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. · tree and pragmatics
description: As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. Who acts: face. Proverbs 27:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 27:19 · JPS 1917

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As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

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**Who acts:** face · **What happens:** answer · **To what, where:** water

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This is Proverbs 27:19 · 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 (face), 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:796
# text = As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	answereth	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | face | water |  |  |  | to face | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to face=Co-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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כַּ֭מַּיִם הַפָּנִ֣ים לַפָּנִ֑ים כֵּ֤ן לֵֽב־הָ֝אָדָ֗ם לָאָדָֽם׃

[Proverbs 27:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.19/)

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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:796` 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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