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title: Proverbs 6:28 (JPS 1917) — Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? · tree and pragmatics
description: Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? Who acts: one. Proverbs 6:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 6:28 · JPS 1917

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Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** walk, not scorch · **To what, where:** hot coals, feet

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This is Proverbs 6:28 · 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 (one), 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:169
# text = Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	scorched	scorch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | can | one |  |  | hot coals |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon coal=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **scorch** | infinitive · passive |  | man's feet |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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אִם־יְהַלֵּ֣ךְ אִ֭ישׁ עַל־הַגֶּחָלִ֑ים וְ֝רַגְלָ֗יו לֹ֣א תִכָּוֶֽינָה׃

[Proverbs 6:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.28/)

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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:169` 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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