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title: Proverbs 4:27 (JPS 1917) — Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil. · tree and pragmatics
description: Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil. Who acts: you. Proverbs 4:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 4:27 · JPS 1917

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Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not turn, remove · **To what, where:** right hand, foot, evil

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This is Proverbs 4:27 · 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:117
# text = Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	remove	remove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the right hand nor the left |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to hand=Trajectory |
| 2 | **remove** | infinitive | you *not said here* | thy foot |  | evil |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent foot=Theme from evil=Source |

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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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אַֽל־תֵּט־יָמִ֥ין וּשְׂמֹ֑אול הָסֵ֖ר רַגְלְךָ֣ מֵרָֽע׃

[Proverbs 4:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.27/)

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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:117` 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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