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title: Proverbs 27:20 (JPS 1917) — The nether-world and Destruction are never satiated; so the eyes of… · tree and pragmatics
description: The nether-world and Destruction are never satiated; so the eyes of man are never satiated. Proverbs 27:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 27:20 · JPS 1917

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The nether-world and Destruction are never satiated; so the eyes of man are never satiated.

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**What happens:** not satiate · **To what, where:** nether world, eyes

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This is Proverbs 27:20 · 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: 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:797
# text = The nether-world and Destruction are never satiated; so the eyes of man are never satiated.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	nether	nether	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	satiated	satiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	satiated	satiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **satiate** | present · passive |  | the nether world and Destruction |  |  |  |  | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **satiate** | present · passive |  | the eyes of man |  |  |  |  | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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שְׁא֣וֹל וַ֭אֲבַדּוֹ לֹ֣א תִשְׂבַּ֑עְנָה וְעֵינֵ֥י הָ֝אָדָ֗ם לֹ֣א תִשְׂבַּֽעְנָה׃

[Proverbs 27:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.20/)

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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:797` 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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