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title: Proverbs 30:15 (JPS 1917) — The horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.' There are three thi… · tree and pragmatics
description: The horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.' There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four that say not: 'Enough': Who acts: horseleech, three things. Proverbs 30:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 30:15 · JPS 1917

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The horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.' There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four that say not: 'Enough':

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**Who acts:** horseleech, three things · **What happens:** have, give, be, not satisfied, not say · **To what, where:** two daughters, three things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 30:15 · 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 (horseleech, three things), 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:879
# text = The horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.' There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four that say not: 'Enough':
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horseleech	horseleech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	satisfied	satisfied	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Enough	enough	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the horseleech | two daughters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **does** | present | three things |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **satisfied** | present · passive |  | three things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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לַֽעֲלוּקָ֨ה ׀ שְׁתֵּ֥י בָנוֹת֮ הַ֤ב ׀ הַ֥ב שָׁל֣וֹשׁ הֵ֭נָּה לֹ֣א תִשְׂבַּ֑עְנָה אַ֝רְבַּ֗ע לֹא־אָ֥מְרוּ הֽוֹן׃

[Proverbs 30:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.15/)

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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:879` 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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