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title: Proverbs 30:6 (JPS 1917) — Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found… · tree and pragmatics
description: Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Who acts: thou, God. Proverbs 30:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 30:6 · JPS 1917

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Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

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**Who acts:** thou, God · **What happens:** not add, reprove, find, word · **To what, where:** thee, thou

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This is Proverbs 30:6 · 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, God), 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:870
# text = Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
1	Add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reprove	reprove	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	liar	liar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **not** **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  | unto God's words | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **reprove** | infinitive | God | thee |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | infinitive · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **word** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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אַל־תּ֥וֹסְףְּ עַל־דְּבָרָ֑יו פֶּן־יוֹכִ֖יחַ בְּךָ֣ וְנִכְזָֽבְתָּ׃פ

[Proverbs 30:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.6/)

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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:870` 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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