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title: Proverbs 1:32 (JPS 1917) — For the waywardness of the thoughtless shall slay them, and the conf… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the waywardness of the thoughtless shall slay them, and the confidence of fools shall destroy them. Who acts: waywardness, confidence. Proverbs 1:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 1:32 · JPS 1917

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For the waywardness of the thoughtless shall slay them, and the confidence of fools shall destroy them.

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**Who acts:** waywardness, confidence · **What happens:** slay, destroy, confide · **To what, where:** trouble, fools

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This is Proverbs 1:32 · 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 (waywardness, confidence), 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:32
# text = For the waywardness of the thoughtless shall slay them, and the confidence of fools shall destroy them.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	waywardness	waywardness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thoughtless	thoughtless	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **slay** | shall | the waywardness of the thoughtless | trouble |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **destroy** | shall | the confidence of fools | trouble |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **confide** |  |  | fools |  |  |  |  | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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כִּ֤י מְשׁוּבַ֣ת פְּתָיִ֣ם תַּֽהַרְגֵ֑ם וְשַׁלְוַ֖ת כְּסִילִ֣ים תְּאַבְּדֵֽם׃

[Proverbs 1:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.32/)

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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:32` 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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