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title: Proverbs 13:15 (JPS 1917) — Good understanding giveth grace; but the way of the faithless is har… · tree and pragmatics
description: Good understanding giveth grace; but the way of the faithless is harsh. Who acts: Good understanding, way. Proverbs 13:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 13:15 · JPS 1917

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Good understanding giveth grace; but the way of the faithless is harsh.

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**Who acts:** Good understanding, way · **What happens:** give, be · **To what, where:** grace

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This is Proverbs 13:15 · 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 (Good understanding, way), 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:364
# text = Good understanding giveth grace; but the way of the faithless is harsh.
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	faithless	faithless	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Good understanding | grace |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grace=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the way of the faithless |  |  |  |  | harsh *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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שֵֽׂכֶל־ט֭וֹב יִתֶּן־חֵ֑ן וְדֶ֖רֶךְ בֹּגְדִ֣ים אֵיתָֽן׃

[Proverbs 13:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.15/)

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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:364` 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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