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title: Proverbs 11:15 (JPS 1917) — He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; but he that hat… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; but he that hateth them that strike hands is secure. Who acts: safety. Proverbs 11:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 11:15 · JPS 1917

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He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; but he that hateth them that strike hands is secure.

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**Who acts:** safety · **What happens:** be, smart, hate, strike · **To what, where:** surety, people, hands

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This is Proverbs 11:15 · 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 (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:305
# text = He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; but he that hateth them that strike hands is secure.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	smart	smart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hateth	hate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	strike	strike	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	secure	secure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | surety |  |  |  | for a stranger | tree rules |
| 2 | **smart** | shall | safety |  |  |  |  | for stranger | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hate** | present |  | people |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **strike** | present |  | hands |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | safety |  |  |  |  | secure *property* | tree rules |

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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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רַע־יֵ֭רוֹעַ כִּי־עָ֣רַב זָ֑ר וְשֹׂנֵ֖א תֹקְעִ֣ים בּוֹטֵֽחַ׃

[Proverbs 11:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.15/)

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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:305` 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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