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title: Proverbs 11:28 — He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall f… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as foliage. Who acts: man, righteous. Proverbs 11:28 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 11:28 מִשְׁלֵי

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**Who acts:** man, righteous · **What happens:** trust, fall, flourish · **To what, where:** riches

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This is Proverbs 11:28 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — man, righteous — and what happens in the verse to riches, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 31 chapters of Proverbs on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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בּוֹטֵ֣חַ בְּ֭עָשְׁרוֹ ה֣וּא יִפֹּ֑ל וְ֝כֶעָלֶ֗ה צַדִּיקִ֥ים יִפְרָֽחוּ׃

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[He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as foliage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.318/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:PRO:315
# text = בּוֹטֵ֣חַ בְּ֭עָשְׁרוֹ ה֣וּא יִפֹּ֑ל וְ֝כֶעָלֶ֗ה צַדִּיקִ֥ים יִפְרָֽחוּ׃
# verse = PRO.11.28
1	בּוֹטֵ֣חַ	בָּטַח	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	Gloss=[one.who].trusts|Ref=PRO_11:28!1|MId=o200110280011|Strong=0982|Type=participle_active
2-4	בְּ֭עָשְׁרוֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
2	בְּ֭	בְּ	ADP	_	_	3	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=PRO_11:28!2|MId=o200110280021|Strong=0871a
3	עָשְׁר	עֹשֶׁר	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Gloss=wealth|Ref=PRO_11:28!2|MId=o200110280022|Strong=6239
4	וֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=his|Ref=PRO_11:28!2|MId=o200110280023|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
5	ה֣וּא	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	Gloss=he|Ref=PRO_11:28!3|MId=o200110280031|Strong=1931|Type=personal
6	יִפֹּ֑ל	נָפַל	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.will.fall|Ref=PRO_11:28!4|MId=o200110280041|Strong=5307|Frame=A0:200110280031;|Type=yiqtol
7-10	וְ֝כֶעָלֶ֗ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
7	וְ֝	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	12	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=PRO_11:28!5|MId=o200110280051|Strong=2050b
8	כֶ	כְּ	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	Gloss=like|Ref=PRO_11:28!5|MId=o200110280052|Strong=3509a
9	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	10	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=PRO_11:28!5|MId=o200110280052ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
10	עָלֶ֗ה	עָלֶה	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Gloss=leaf|Ref=PRO_11:28!5|MId=o200110280053|Strong=5929
11	צַדִּיקִ֥ים	צַדִּיק	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	Gloss=righteous.[people]|Ref=PRO_11:28!6|MId=o200110280061|Strong=6662|Type=adjective
12	יִפְרָֽחוּ	פָּרַח	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	6	conj	_	Gloss=they.will.bud|Ref=PRO_11:28!7|MId=o200110280071|Strong=6524|Frame=A0:200110280061;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No
13	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	12	punct	_	Ref=PRO_11:28!7
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- speech: narration
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִפֹּל *he will fall* | yiqtol · qal | הוּא *he* |  |  |  |
| יִפְרָֽחוּ *they will bud* | yiqtol · qal | צַדִּיקִים *righteous \[people\]* |  |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## The Targum {#onkelos}

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דִמְסַבֵּר בְּעוּתְרֵיהּ הוּא נָפֵל וְאֵיךְ טַרְפָא צַדִיקֵי מַפְרְחִין:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as foliage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.318/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:PRO:315`.

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