---
title: Proverbs 12:2 (JPS 1917) — A good man shall obtain favour of the LORD; but a man of wicked devi… · tree and pragmatics
description: A good man shall obtain favour of the LORD; but a man of wicked devices will He condemn. Who acts: good man, man. Proverbs 12:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.323/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Proverbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/) / [chapter 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/12/) / [12:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.2/) / JPS 1

# Proverbs 12:2 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A good man shall obtain favour of the LORD; but a man of wicked devices will He condemn.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** good man, man · **What happens:** obtain, condemn, favour · **To what, where:** favour, man, LORD

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Proverbs 12:2 · 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 (good man, 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:323
# text = A good man shall obtain favour of the LORD; but a man of wicked devices will He condemn.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	devices	device	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	condemn	condemn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | shall | a good man | favour of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Theme |
| 2 | **condemn** | future | man | a man of wicked devices |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 3 | **favour** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
ט֗וֹב יָפִ֣יק רָ֭צוֹן מֵיְהוָ֑ה וְאִ֖ישׁ מְזִמּ֣וֹת יַרְשִֽׁיעַ׃

[Proverbs 12:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.2/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:323` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Proverbs 12:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.322/)
- next →: [Proverbs 12:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.324/)
- ↑ back to [Proverbs 12:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.2/)