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title: Proverbs 29:3 (JPS 1917) — Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; but he that keepeth compan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; but he that keepeth company with harlots wasteth his substance. Who acts: Whoso, wicked. Proverbs 29:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 29:3 · JPS 1917

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Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; but he that keepeth company with harlots wasteth his substance.

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**Who acts:** Whoso, wicked · **What happens:** love, rejoice, keep, waste · **To what, where:** wisdom, father, company, substance

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This is Proverbs 29:3 · 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 (Whoso, wicked), 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:835
# text = Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; but he that keepeth company with harlots wasteth his substance.
1	Whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	loveth	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
3	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	rejoiceth	rejoice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	keepeth	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	harlots	harlot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	wasteth	waste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present |  | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rejoice** | present | Whoso | wicked's father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | present |  | company |  |  |  | with harlots | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme |
| 4 | **waste** | present | wicked | wicked's substance |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent substance=Patient |

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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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אִֽישׁ־אֹהֵ֣ב חָ֭כְמָה יְשַׂמַּ֣ח אָבִ֑יו וְרֹעֶ֥ה ז֝וֹנ֗וֹת יְאַבֶּד־הֽוֹן׃

[Proverbs 29:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.3/)

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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:835` 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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