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title: Proverbs 11:28 (JPS 1917) — He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall f… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as foliage. Who acts: man, righteous. Proverbs 11:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 11:28 · JPS 1917

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He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as foliage.

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**Who acts:** man, righteous · **What happens:** trust, fall, flourish · **To what, where:** riches

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This is Proverbs 11:28 · 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, righteous), 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:318
# text = He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as foliage.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	trusteth	trust	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	riches	riches	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	flourish	flourish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **trust** | present |  |  |  | man's riches |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** | shall | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flourish** | shall | the righteous |  |  |  |  | as foliage | vn exist-47.1 «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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בּוֹטֵ֣חַ בְּ֭עָשְׁרוֹ ה֣וּא יִפֹּ֑ל וְ֝כֶעָלֶ֗ה צַדִּיקִ֥ים יִפְרָֽחוּ׃

[Proverbs 11:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.28/)

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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:318` 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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