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title: Proverbs 12:20 (JPS 1917) — Deceit is in the heart of them that devise evil; but to the counsell… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deceit is in the heart of them that devise evil; but to the counsellors of peace is joy. Who acts: Deceit, heart. Proverbs 12:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 12:20 · JPS 1917

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Deceit is in the heart of them that devise evil; but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

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**Who acts:** Deceit, heart · **What happens:** be, devise · **To what, where:** heart, evil, joy

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This is Proverbs 12:20 · 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 (Deceit, heart), 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:341
# text = Deceit is in the heart of them that devise evil; but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
1	Deceit	deceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	devise	devise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Deceit |  |  | the heart but joy |  | of heart | tree rules |
| 2 | **devise** | present | the heart but joy | evil |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Deceit *not said here* | joy |  |  |  | to the counsellors of peace | 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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מִ֭רְמָה בְּלֶב־חֹ֣רְשֵׁי רָ֑ע וּֽלְיֹעֲצֵ֖י שָׁל֣וֹם שִׂמְחָֽה׃

[Proverbs 12:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.20/)

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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:341` 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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