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title: Proverbs 30:28 (JPS 1917) — The spider thou canst take with the hands, yet is she in kings' pala… · tree and pragmatics
description: The spider thou canst take with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces. Who acts: thou, generation. Proverbs 30:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 30:28 · JPS 1917

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The spider thou canst take with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.

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**Who acts:** thou, generation · **What happens:** take, be · **To what, where:** spider, palaces

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This is Proverbs 30:28 · 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, generation), 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:892
# text = The spider thou canst take with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | can | thou | the spider |  |  |  | with the hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | generation |  |  | kings's palaces |  |  | tree rules |

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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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שְׂ֭מָמִית בְּיָדַ֣יִם תְּתַפֵּ֑שׂ וְ֝הִ֗יא בְּהֵ֣יכְלֵי מֶֽלֶךְ׃פ

[Proverbs 30:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.28/)

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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:892` 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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