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title: Proverbs 11:5 (JPS 1917) — The righteousness of the sincere shall make straight his way; but th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The righteousness of the sincere shall make straight his way; but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. Who acts: righteousness, wicked. Proverbs 11:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 11:5 · JPS 1917

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The righteousness of the sincere shall make straight his way; but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

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**Who acts:** righteousness, wicked · **What happens:** make, fall · **To what, where:** way

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This is Proverbs 11:5 · 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 (righteousness, wicked), 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:295
# text = The righteousness of the sincere shall make straight his way; but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	righteousness	righteousness	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	sincere	sincere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | shall | the righteousness of the sincere | righteousness's way |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
| 2 | **fall** | shall | the wicked |  |  |  |  | by righteousness's own wickedness | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by wickedness=Location |

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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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צִדְקַ֣ת תָּ֭מִים תְּיַשֵּׁ֣ר דַּרְכּ֑וֹ וּ֝בְרִשְׁעָת֗וֹ יִפֹּ֥ל רָשָֽׁע׃

[Proverbs 11:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.5/)

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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:295` 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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