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title: Proverbs 11:27 (JPS 1917) — He that diligently seeketh good seeketh favour; but he that searchet… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that diligently seeketh good seeketh favour; but he that searcheth for evil, it shall come unto him. Who acts: man. Proverbs 11:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 11:27 · JPS 1917

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He that diligently seeketh good seeketh favour; but he that searcheth for evil, it shall come unto him.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** seek, search, come · **To what, where:** good, favour

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This is Proverbs 11:27 · 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 (man), 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:317
# text = He that diligently seeketh good seeketh favour; but he that searcheth for evil, it shall come unto him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	diligently	diligently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	seeketh	seek	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	good	good	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	seeketh	seek	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	searcheth	search	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present |  | good |  |  |  | diligently *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | present | man | favour |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Theme |
| 3 | **search** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for evil | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for evil=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | shall | man |  |  |  |  | unto head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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שֹׁ֣חֵֽר ט֭וֹב יְבַקֵּ֣שׁ רָצ֑וֹן וְדֹרֵ֖שׁ רָעָ֣ה תְבוֹאֶֽנּוּ׃

[Proverbs 11:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.27/)

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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:317` 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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