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title: Proverbs 6:18 (JPS 1917) — A heart that deviseth wicked thoughts, feet that are swift in runnin… · tree and pragmatics
description: A heart that deviseth wicked thoughts, feet that are swift in running to evil; Who acts: heart, feet. Proverbs 6:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 6:18 · JPS 1917

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A heart that deviseth wicked thoughts, feet that are swift in running to evil;

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**Who acts:** heart, feet · **What happens:** devise, be, run · **To what, where:** wicked thoughts

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This is Proverbs 6:18 · 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 (heart, feet), 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:159
# text = A heart that deviseth wicked thoughts, feet that are swift in running to evil;
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	deviseth	devise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devise** | present | a heart | wicked thoughts |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | feet |  |  |  |  | swift *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | feet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to evil *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to evil=Result |

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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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לֵ֗ב חֹ֭רֵשׁ מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת אָ֑וֶן רַגְלַ֥יִם מְ֝מַהֲר֗וֹת לָר֥וּץ לָֽרָעָה׃

[Proverbs 6:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.18/)

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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:159` 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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