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title: Proverbs 31:2 (JPS 1917) — What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? and what, O son of my vows? · tree and pragmatics
description: What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? and what, O son of my vows? Who acts: my. Proverbs 31:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 31:2 · JPS 1917

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What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? and what, O son of my vows?

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**Who acts:** my · **What happens:** vow

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This is Proverbs 31:2 · 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 (my), 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:899
# text = What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? and what, O son of my vows?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	vocative	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vow** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom vow «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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מַה־בְּ֭רִי וּמַֽה־בַּר־בִּטְנִ֑י וּ֝מֶה בַּר־נְדָרָֽי׃

[Proverbs 31:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.2/)

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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:899` 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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