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title: Proverbs 28:7 (JPS 1917) — A wise son observeth the teaching; but he that is a companion of glu… · tree and pragmatics
description: A wise son observeth the teaching; but he that is a companion of gluttonous men shameth his father. Who acts: wise son, son. Proverbs 28:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 28:7 · JPS 1917

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A wise son observeth the teaching; but he that is a companion of gluttonous men shameth his father.

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**Who acts:** wise son, son · **What happens:** observe, be, shame · **To what, where:** teaching, companion, father

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This is Proverbs 28:7 · 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 (wise son, son), 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:811
# text = A wise son observeth the teaching; but he that is a companion of gluttonous men shameth his father.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	observeth	observe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	gluttonous	gluttonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	shameth	shame	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **observe** | present | a wise son | the teaching |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent teaching=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a companion |  |  |  | of gluttonous men | tree rules |
| 3 | **shame** | present | son | man's father |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer |

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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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נוֹצֵ֣ר תּ֭וֹרָה בֵּ֣ן מֵבִ֑ין וְרֹעֶה זֽ֝וֹלְלִ֗ים יַכְלִ֥ים אָבִֽיו׃

[Proverbs 28:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.7/)

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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:811` 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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