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title: Proverbs 12:17 (JPS 1917) — He that breatheth forth truth uttereth righteousness; but a false wi… · tree and pragmatics
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# Proverbs 12:17 · JPS 1917

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He that breatheth forth truth uttereth righteousness; but a false witness deceit.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** breathe, utter · **To what, where:** truth, righteousness

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This is Proverbs 12:17 · 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 (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:338
# text = He that breatheth forth truth uttereth righteousness; but a false witness deceit.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	breatheth	breathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	uttereth	utter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	witness	witness	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	deceit	deceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **breathe** | present |  | truth |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | present | man | righteousness |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent righteousness=Topic |

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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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יָפִ֣יחַ אֱ֭מוּנָה יַגִּ֣יד צֶ֑דֶק וְעֵ֖ד שְׁקָרִ֣ים מִרְמָֽה׃

[Proverbs 12:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.17/)

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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:338` 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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