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title: Proverbs 30:27 (JPS 1917) — The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; · tree and pragmatics
description: The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; Who acts: locusts. Proverbs 30:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 30:27 · JPS 1917

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The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

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**Who acts:** locusts · **What happens:** have, go · **To what, where:** king

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This is Proverbs 30:27 · 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 (locusts), 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:891
# text = The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	locusts	locust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	;	;	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 | **have** | present | the locusts | no king |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | present | locusts *= locust* |  |  |  |  | by bands; forth *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by band=Location |

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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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מֶ֭לֶךְ אֵ֣ין לָאַרְבֶּ֑ה וַיֵּצֵ֖א חֹצֵ֣ץ כֻּלּֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 30:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.27/)

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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:891` 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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