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title: Proverbs 12:21 (JPS 1917) — There shall no mischief befall the righteous; but the wicked are fil… · tree and pragmatics
description: There shall no mischief befall the righteous; but the wicked are filled with evil. Who acts: mischief. Proverbs 12:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 12:21 · JPS 1917

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There shall no mischief befall the righteous; but the wicked are filled with evil.

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**Who acts:** mischief · **What happens:** befall, fill · **To what, where:** righteous, wicked

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This is Proverbs 12:21 · 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 (mischief), 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:342
# text = There shall no mischief befall the righteous; but the wicked are filled with evil.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	befall	befall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	righteous	righteous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **befall** | shall | no mischief | the righteous |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fill** | present · passive |  | the wicked |  |  |  | with evil | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with evil=Instrument |

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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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לֹא־יְאֻנֶּ֣ה לַצַּדִּ֣יק כָּל־אָ֑וֶן וּ֝רְשָׁעִ֗ים מָ֣לְאוּ רָֽע׃

[Proverbs 12:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.21/)

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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:342` 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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