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title: Proverbs 13:19 (JPS 1917) — The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; and it is an abominati… · tree and pragmatics
description: The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; and it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil. Who acts: desire, it. Proverbs 13:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 13:19 · JPS 1917

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The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; and it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.

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**Who acts:** desire, it · **What happens:** accomplish, be, depart · **To what, where:** desire, abomination, evil

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This is Proverbs 13:19 · 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 (desire, it), 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:368
# text = The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; and it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	abomination	abomination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: none
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accomplish** | participle |  | the desire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the desire |  |  |  |  | to the soul; sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | it | a abomination |  |  |  | to fools | tree rules |
| 4 | **depart** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | evil |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from evil=Initial\_Location |

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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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תַּאֲוָ֣ה נִ֭הְיָה תֶּעֱרַ֣ב לְנָ֑פֶשׁ וְתוֹעֲבַ֥ת כְּ֝סִילִ֗ים ס֣וּר מֵרָֽע׃

[Proverbs 13:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.19/)

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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:368` 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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