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title: Proverbs 12:10 (JPS 1917) — A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender merc… · tree and pragmatics
description: A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Who acts: righteous man, tender mercies. Proverbs 12:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 12:10 · JPS 1917

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A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

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**Who acts:** righteous man, tender mercies · **What happens:** regard, be · **To what, where:** life

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This is Proverbs 12:10 · 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 (righteous man, tender mercies), 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:331
# text = A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	regardeth	regard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mercies	mercy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **regard** | present | a righteous man | the life of man's beast |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the tender mercies of the wicked |  |  |  |  | cruel *property* | tree rules |

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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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יוֹדֵ֣עַ צַ֭דִּיק נֶ֣פֶשׁ בְּהֶמְתּ֑וֹ וְֽרַחֲמֵ֥י רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים אַכְזָרִֽי׃

[Proverbs 12:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.10/)

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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:331` 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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