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title: Proverbs 4:7 (JPS 1917) — The beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom; yea, with all thy getting ge… · tree and pragmatics
description: The beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom; yea, with all thy getting get understanding. Who acts: getting. Proverbs 4:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 4:7 · JPS 1917

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The beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom; yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

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**Who acts:** getting · **What happens:** be, get, begin · **To what, where:** understanding, wisdom

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This is Proverbs 4:7 · 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 (getting), 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:97
# text = The beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom; yea, with all thy getting get understanding.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	getting	get	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
17	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- 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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | get *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | thy getting | understanding |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer understanding=Stimulus |
| 3 | **begin** |  |  | wisdom |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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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רֵאשִׁ֣ית חָ֭כְמָה קְנֵ֣ה חָכְמָ֑ה וּבְכָל־קִ֝נְיָנְךָ֗ קְנֵ֣ה בִינָֽה׃

[Proverbs 4:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.7/)

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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:97` 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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