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title: Proverbs 10:9 (JPS 1917) — He that walketh uprightly walketh securely; but he that perverteth h… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that walketh uprightly walketh securely; but he that perverteth his ways shall be found out. Who acts: fool. Proverbs 10:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 10:9 · JPS 1917

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He that walketh uprightly walketh securely; but he that perverteth his ways shall be found out.

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**Who acts:** fool · **What happens:** walk, pervert, find out · **To what, where:** ways, fool

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This is Proverbs 10:9 · 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 (fool), 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:267
# text = He that walketh uprightly walketh securely; but he that perverteth his ways shall be found out.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walketh	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	uprightly	uprightly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	walketh	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	securely	securely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	perverteth	pervert	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present |  |  |  |  |  | uprightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | present | fool |  |  |  |  | securely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pervert** | present |  | fool's ways |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find out** | shall · passive |  | fool |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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הוֹלֵ֣ךְ בַּ֭תֹּם יֵ֣לֶךְ בֶּ֑טַח וּמְעַקֵּ֥שׁ דְּ֝רָכָ֗יו יִוָּדֵֽעַ׃

[Proverbs 10:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.9/)

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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:267` 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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