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title: Proverbs 27:22 (JPS 1917) — Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among gr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Who acts: thou, foolishness. Proverbs 27:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 27:22 · JPS 1917

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Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

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**Who acts:** thou, foolishness · **What happens:** bray, not depart · **To what, where:** fool, mortar

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This is Proverbs 27:22 · 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, foolishness), 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:799
# text = Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shouldest	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bray	bray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pestle	pestle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	groats	groat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	foolishness	foolishness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bray** | should | thou | a fool |  | a mortar |  | with a pestle among groats | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **depart** | future | Destruction's foolishness |  |  |  |  | from Destruction | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |

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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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אִ֥ם תִּכְתּֽוֹשׁ־אֶת־הָאֱוִ֨יל ׀ בַּֽמַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ בְּת֣וֹךְ הָ֭רִיפוֹת בַּֽעֱלִ֑י לֹא־תָס֥וּר מֵ֝עָלָ֗יו אִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃פ

[Proverbs 27:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.22/)

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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:799` 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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