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title: Proverbs 6:17 (JPS 1917) — Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood; · tree and pragmatics
description: Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood; Who acts: hands. Proverbs 6:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 6:17 · JPS 1917

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Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;

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**Who acts:** hands · **What happens:** lie, shed · **To what, where:** innocent blood

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This is Proverbs 6:17 · 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 (hands), 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:158
# text = Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
1	Haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shed	shed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shed** | present | hands | innocent blood |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=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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עֵינַ֣יִם רָ֭מוֹת לְשׁ֣וֹן שָׁ֑קֶר וְ֝יָדַ֗יִם שֹׁפְכ֥וֹת דָּם־נָקִֽי׃

[Proverbs 6:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.17/)

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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:158` 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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