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title: Proverbs 29:15 (JPS 1917) — The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself causeth… · tree and pragmatics
description: The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother. Who acts: rod, child. Proverbs 29:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 29:15 · JPS 1917

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The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.

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**Who acts:** rod, child · **What happens:** give, leave, cause · **To what, where:** wisdom, child, shame

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This is Proverbs 29:15 · 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 (rod, child), 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:847
# text = The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	reproof	reproof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	_
14	causeth	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **give** | present | the rod and reproof | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | a child *not said here* | child |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **cause** | present | a child | shame |  |  |  | to child's mother | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition shame=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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שֵׁ֣בֶט וְ֭תוֹכַחַת יִתֵּ֣ן חָכְמָ֑ה וְנַ֥עַר מְ֝שֻׁלָּ֗ח מֵבִ֥ישׁ אִמּֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 29:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.15/)

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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:847` 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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