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title: Proverbs 11:14 (JPS 1917) — Where no wise direction is, a people falleth; but in the multitude o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where no wise direction is, a people falleth; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. Who acts: wise direction, people, safety. Proverbs 11:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 11:14 · JPS 1917

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Where no wise direction is, a people falleth; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

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**Who acts:** wise direction, people, safety · **What happens:** be, fall · **To what, where:** multitude

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This is Proverbs 11:14 · 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 (wise direction, people, safety), 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:304
# text = Where no wise direction is, a people falleth; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	falleth	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no wise direction |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | present | a people |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | present | safety |  |  | the multitude of counsellors; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in multitude=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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בְּאֵ֣ין תַּ֭חְבֻּלוֹת יִפָּל־עָ֑ם וּ֝תְשׁוּעָ֗ה בְּרֹ֣ב יוֹעֵֽץ׃

[Proverbs 11:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.14/)

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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:304` 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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