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title: Proverbs 30:1 (JPS 1917) — The man saith unto Ithiel, unto Ithiel and Ucal: · tree and pragmatics
description: The man saith unto Ithiel, unto Ithiel and Ucal: Who acts: man. Proverbs 30:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 30:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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The man saith unto Ithiel, unto Ithiel and Ucal:

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 30:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (man), 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:861
# text = The man saith unto Ithiel, unto Ithiel and Ucal:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ithiel	Ithiel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ithiel	Ithiel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Ucal	Ucal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the man |  |  |  |  | unto Ithiel and Ithiel and Ucal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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דִּבְרֵ֤י ׀ אָג֥וּר בִּן־יָקֶ֗ה הַמַּ֫שָּׂ֥א נְאֻ֣ם הַ֭גֶּבֶר לְאִֽיתִיאֵ֑ל לְאִ֖יתִיאֵ֣ל וְאֻכָֽל׃

[Proverbs 30:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; the burden.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.860/)
2. **The man saith unto Ithiel, unto Ithiel and Ucal:**

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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:861` 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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