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title: Proverbs 31:6 (JPS 1917) — Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto th… · tree and pragmatics
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# Proverbs 31:6 · JPS 1917

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Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto the bitter in soul;

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, be, perish · **To what, where:** strong drink

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This is Proverbs 31:6 · 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 (you), 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:903
# text = Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto the bitter in soul;
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
14	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | strong drink |  |  |  | unto Lemuel | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **perish** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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תְּנוּ־שֵׁכָ֣ר לְאוֹבֵ֑ד וְ֝יַיִן לְמָ֣רֵי נָֽפֶשׁ׃

[Proverbs 31:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.6/)

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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:903` 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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