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title: Proverbs 31:5 (JPS 1917) — Lest they drink, and forget that which is decreed, and pervert the j… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lest they drink, and forget that which is decreed, and pervert the justice due to any that is afflicted. Who acts: kings. Proverbs 31:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 31:5 · JPS 1917

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Lest they drink, and forget that which is decreed, and pervert the justice due to any that is afflicted.

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**Who acts:** kings · **What happens:** drink, forget, decree, pervert, afflict · **To what, where:** that, justice

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This is Proverbs 31:5 · 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 (kings), 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:902
# text = Lest they drink, and forget that which is decreed, and pervert the justice due to any that is afflicted.
1	Lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	decreed	decree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	pervert	pervert	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **drink** | present | kings *= king* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **forget** | present | kings *= king* *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **decree** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **pervert** | present | kings *= king* *not said here* | the justice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **afflict** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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פֶּן־יִ֭שְׁתֶּה וְיִשְׁכַּ֣ח מְחֻקָּ֑ק וִֽ֝ישַׁנֶּה דִּ֣ין כָּל־בְּנֵי־עֹֽנִי׃

[Proverbs 31:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.5/)

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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:902` 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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