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title: Proverbs 4:2 (JPS 1917) — For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my teaching. · tree and pragmatics
description: For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my teaching. Who acts: I, ye, my. Proverbs 4:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 4:2 · JPS 1917

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For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my teaching.

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**Who acts:** I, ye, my · **What happens:** give, not forsake, teach · **To what, where:** good doctrine, you, teaching

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This is Proverbs 4:2 · 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 (I, ye, 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:92
# text = For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my teaching.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	doctrine	doctrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
8	forsake	forsake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | I | good doctrine | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient doctrine=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **forsake** | infinitive | ye | my teaching |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **teach** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act 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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כִּ֤י לֶ֣קַח ט֭וֹב נָתַ֣תִּי לָכֶ֑ם תּֽ֝וֹרָתִ֗י אַֽל־תַּעֲזֹֽבוּ׃

[Proverbs 4:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.2/)

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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:92` 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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