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title: Proverbs 4:5 (JPS 1917) — Get wisdom, get understanding; forget not, neither decline from the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Get wisdom, get understanding; forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth; Who acts: you. Proverbs 4:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 4:5 · JPS 1917

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Get wisdom, get understanding; forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth;

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** get, not forget, decline, word · **To what, where:** wisdom, understanding, words, mouth

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This is Proverbs 4:5 · 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 (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:95
# text = Get wisdom, get understanding; forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth;
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	forget	forget	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
11	decline	decline	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | understanding |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer understanding=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **forget** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **decline** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the words of my mouth |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **word** |  |  | my mouth |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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קְנֵ֣ה חָ֭כְמָה קְנֵ֣ה בִינָ֑ה אַל־תִּשְׁכַּ֥ח וְאַל־תֵּ֝֗ט מֵֽאִמְרֵי־פִֽי׃

[Proverbs 4:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.5/)

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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:95` 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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