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title: Proverbs 10:2 (JPS 1917) — Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth… · tree and pragmatics
description: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death. Who acts: Treasures, righteousness. Proverbs 10:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 10:2 · JPS 1917

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Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.

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**Who acts:** Treasures, righteousness · **What happens:** profit, deliver, treasure · **To what, where:** nothing, death, wickedness

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This is Proverbs 10:2 · 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 (Treasures, righteousness), 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:260
# text = Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
1	Treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	profit	profit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	delivereth	deliver	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **profit** | present | Treasures of wickedness | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer nothing=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **deliver** | present | righteousness |  |  | death |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from death=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **treasure** |  |  | wickedness |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=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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לֹא־י֭וֹעִילוּ אוֹצְר֣וֹת רֶ֑שַׁע וּ֝צְדָקָ֗ה תַּצִּ֥יל מִמָּֽוֶת׃

[Proverbs 10:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.2/)

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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:260` 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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