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title: Proverbs 12:6 (JPS 1917) — The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood; but the mouth… · tree and pragmatics
description: The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. Who acts: words, mouth. Proverbs 12:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 12:6 · JPS 1917

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

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**Who acts:** words, mouth · **What happens:** be, deliver, word · **To what, where:** wait, words, wicked

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This is Proverbs 12:6 · 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 (words, mouth), 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:327
# text = The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	upright	upright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: none
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the words of the wicked |  |  | wait for blood |  | lie *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deliver** | shall | the mouth of the upright | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **word** |  |  | the wicked |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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דִּבְרֵ֣י רְשָׁעִ֣ים אֱרָב־דָּ֑ם וּפִ֥י יְ֝שָׁרִ֗ים יַצִּילֵֽם׃

[Proverbs 12:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.6/)

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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:327` 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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