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title: Proverbs 11:19 (JPS 1917) — Stedfast righteousness tendeth to life; but he that pursueth evil pu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Stedfast righteousness tendeth to life; but he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death. Who acts: Stedfast righteousness, righteousness. Proverbs 11:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 11:19 · JPS 1917

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Stedfast righteousness tendeth to life; but he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

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**Who acts:** Stedfast righteousness, righteousness · **What happens:** tend, pursue, die · **To what, where:** evil, own death

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This is Proverbs 11:19 · 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 (Stedfast righteousness, righteousness), 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:309
# text = Stedfast righteousness tendeth to life; but he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
1	Stedfast	stedfast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tendeth	tend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pursueth	pursue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	pursueth	pursue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | present | Stedfast righteousness |  |  |  |  | to life | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to life=Theme |
| 2 | **pursue** | present |  | evil |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Theme |
| 3 | **pursue** | present | righteousness | evil |  | righteousness's own death |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme to death=Trajectory |
| 4 | **die** |  | righteousness |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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כֵּן־צְדָקָ֥ה לְחַיִּ֑ים וּמְרַדֵּ֖ף רָעָ֣ה לְמוֹתֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 11:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.19/)

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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:309` 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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