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title: Proverbs 13:6 (JPS 1917) — Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; but wickednes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. Who acts: Righteousness, wickedness. Proverbs 13:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 13:6 · JPS 1917

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Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

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**Who acts:** Righteousness, wickedness · **What happens:** guard, be, overthrow · **To what, where:** man, way, sinner

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This is Proverbs 13:6 · 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 (Righteousness, wickedness), 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:355
# text = Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
1	Righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	guardeth	guard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	overthroweth	overthrow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sinner	sinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **guard** | present | Righteousness |  | man |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the way |  | upright *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **overthrow** | present | wickedness | the sinner |  |  |  |  | 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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צְ֭דָקָה תִּצֹּ֣ר תָּם־דָּ֑רֶךְ וְ֝רִשְׁעָ֗ה תְּסַלֵּ֥ף חַטָּֽאת׃

[Proverbs 13:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.6/)

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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:355` 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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