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title: Proverbs 31:30 (JPS 1917) — Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. Who acts: Grace, beauty, woman. Proverbs 31:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 31:30 · JPS 1917

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Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

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**Who acts:** Grace, beauty, woman · **What happens:** be, fear, praise · **To what, where:** LORD, woman

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This is Proverbs 31:30 · 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 (Grace, beauty, woman), 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:927
# text = Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
1	Grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	feareth	fear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	praised	praise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
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 | **is** | present | Grace |  |  |  |  | deceitful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | beauty |  |  |  |  | vain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fear** | present | a woman | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus |
| 4 | **praise** | shall · passive |  | a woman |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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שֶׁ֣קֶר הַ֭חֵן וְהֶ֣בֶל הַיֹּ֑פִי אִשָּׁ֥ה יִרְאַת־יְ֝הוָ֗ה הִ֣יא תִתְהַלָּֽל׃

[Proverbs 31:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.30/)

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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:927` 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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