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title: Proverbs 13:20 (JPS 1917) — He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but the companion of fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but the companion of fools shall smart for it. Who acts: fool, companion. Proverbs 13:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 13:20 · JPS 1917

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He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but the companion of fools shall smart for it.

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**Who acts:** fool, companion · **What happens:** walk, be, smart

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This is Proverbs 13:20 · 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 (fool, companion), 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:369
# text = He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but the companion of fools shall smart for it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walketh	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	smart	smart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **walk** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with wise men | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | shall | fool |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **smart** | shall | the companion of fools |  |  |  |  | for desire | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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הוֹלֵ֣ךְאֶת־חֲכָמִ֣ים יֶחְכָּ֑ם וְרֹעֶ֖ה כְסִילִ֣ים יֵרֽוֹעַ׃

[Proverbs 13:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.20/)

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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:369` 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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