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title: Proverbs 11:3 (JPS 1917) — The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the perverseness… · tree and pragmatics
description: The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the perverseness of the faithless shall destroy them. Who acts: integrity, perverseness. Proverbs 11:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 11:3 · JPS 1917

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The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the perverseness of the faithless shall destroy them.

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**Who acts:** integrity, perverseness · **What happens:** guide, destroy · **To what, where:** abomination

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This is Proverbs 11:3 · 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 (integrity, perverseness), 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:293
# text = The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the perverseness of the faithless shall destroy them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	integrity	integrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	upright	upright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	7	aux	_	_
7	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	perverseness	perverseness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	faithless	faithless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	_	17	aux	_	_
17	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guide** | shall | the integrity of the upright | abomination |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** | shall | the perverseness of the faithless | abomination |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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תֻּמַּ֣ת יְשָׁרִ֣ים תַּנְחֵ֑ם וְסֶ֖לֶף בּוֹגְדִ֣ים יְשָׁדֵּֽם׃

[Proverbs 11:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.3/)

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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:293` 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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