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title: Proverbs 12:8 (JPS 1917) — A man shall be commended according to his intelligence; but he that… · tree and pragmatics
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# Proverbs 12:8 · JPS 1917

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A man shall be commended according to his intelligence; but he that is of a distorted understanding shall be despised.

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**What happens:** commend, be, despise · **To what, where:** man

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This is Proverbs 12:8 · 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: 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:329
# text = A man shall be commended according to his intelligence; but he that is of a distorted understanding shall be despised.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	commended	commend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	according	accord	ADP	VBG	_	9	case	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	distorted	distort	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	despised	despise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **commend** | shall · passive |  | a man |  |  |  | accord man's intelligence | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of a distorted understanding | tree rules |
| 3 | **despise** | shall · passive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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לְֽפִי־שִׂ֭כְלוֹ יְהֻלַּל־אִ֑ישׁ וְנַעֲוֵה־לֵ֝֗ב יִהְיֶ֥ה לָבֽוּז׃

[Proverbs 12:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.8/)

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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:329` 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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