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title: Proverbs 16:33 — The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD. Who acts: whole disposing. Proverbs 16:33 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 16:33 מִשְׁלֵי

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**Who acts:** whole disposing · **What happens:** cast, be · **To what, where:** lot, lap

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This is Proverbs 16:33 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 — whole disposing — and what happens in the verse to lot, lap, 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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בַּ֭חֵיק יוּטַ֣ל אֶת־הַגּוֹרָ֑ל וּ֝מֵיְהוָ֗ה כָּל־מִשְׁפָּטֽוֹ׃

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[The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.476/)

## 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:472
# text = בַּ֭חֵיק יוּטַ֣ל אֶת־הַגּוֹרָ֑ל וּ֝מֵיְהוָ֗ה כָּל־מִשְׁפָּטֽוֹ׃
# verse = PRO.16.33
1-3	בַּ֭חֵיק	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	בַּ֭	בְּ	ADP	_	_	3	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=PRO_16:33!1|MId=o200160330011|Strong=0871a
2	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	3	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=PRO_16:33!1|MId=o200160330011ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
3	חֵיק	חֵיק	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Gloss=bosom|Ref=PRO_16:33!1|MId=o200160330012|Strong=2436
4	יוּטַ֣ל	טוּל	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HOPHAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=it.is.hurled.down|Ref=PRO_16:33!2|MId=o200160330021|Strong=2904|Frame=A1:200160330042;|Type=yiqtol
5	אֶת־	אֵת	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	Gloss=(et)|Ref=PRO_16:33!3|MId=o200160330031|Strong=0853|Type=direct_object_marker|SpaceAfter=No
6-7	הַגּוֹרָ֑ל	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	7	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=PRO_16:33!4|MId=o200160330041|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
7	גּוֹרָ֑ל	גּוֹרָל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Gloss=lot|Ref=PRO_16:33!4|MId=o200160330042|Strong=1486
8-10	וּ֝מֵיְהוָ֗ה	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	וּ֝	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	10	cc	_	Gloss=and.[is]|Ref=PRO_16:33!5|MId=o200160330051|Strong=2050b
9	מֵ	מִן	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	Gloss=from|Ref=PRO_16:33!5|MId=o200160330052|Strong=4480
10	יְהוָ֗ה	יהוה	PROPN	_	_	4	conj	_	Gloss=Yahweh|Ref=PRO_16:33!5|MId=o200160330053|Strong=3068
11	כָּל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Gloss=every|Ref=PRO_16:33!6|MId=o200160330061|Strong=3605|SpaceAfter=No
12-13	מִשְׁפָּטֽוֹ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	מִשְׁפָּט	מִשְׁפָּט	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	11	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=decision|Ref=PRO_16:33!7|MId=o200160330071|Strong=4941
13	ֽוֹ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=its|Ref=PRO_16:33!7|MId=o200160330072|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal
14	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	13	punct	_	Ref=PRO_16:33!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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יוּטַל *it is hurled down* | yiqtol · hophal |  | גּוֹרָל *lot* |  |  |

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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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בְּעוּבָא דְעִצְתָּא נָפְלָא פִּצְתָּא וּמִן אֱלָהָא נְפַק דִינֵיהּ:

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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. [The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.476/)

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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:472`.

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