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title: Proverbs 4:9 (JPS 1917) — She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace; a crown of glory will… · tree and pragmatics
description: She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace; a crown of glory will she bestow on thee.' Who acts: getting. Proverbs 4:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 4:9 · JPS 1917

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She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace; a crown of glory will she bestow on thee.'

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**Who acts:** getting · **What happens:** give, bestow, crown · **To what, where:** chaplet, head, crown, thee, glory

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This is Proverbs 4:9 · 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:99
# text = She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace; a crown of glory will she bestow on thee.'
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chaplet	chaplet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | getting *= get* | a chaplet of grace | thy head |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chaplet=Theme to head=Recipient |
| 2 | **bestow** | future | getting *= get* | a crown of glory |  | thee |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crown** |  |  | glory |  |  |  |  | nom crown «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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תִּתֵּ֣ן לְ֭רֹאשְׁךָ לִוְיַת־חֵ֑ן עֲטֶ֖רֶת תִּפְאֶ֣רֶת תְּמַגְּנֶֽךָּ׃

[Proverbs 4:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.9/)

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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:99` 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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