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title: Proverbs 14:8 (JPS 1917) — The wisdom of the prudent is to look well to his way; but the folly… · tree and pragmatics
description: The wisdom of the prudent is to look well to his way; but the folly of fools is deceit. Who acts: wisdom, folly. Proverbs 14:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 14:8 · JPS 1917

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The wisdom of the prudent is to look well to his way; but the folly of fools is deceit.

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**Who acts:** wisdom, folly · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** deceit

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This is Proverbs 14:8 · 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 (wisdom, folly), 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:382
# text = The wisdom of the prudent is to look well to his way; but the folly of fools is deceit.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prudent	prudent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	deceit	deceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the wisdom of the prudent |  |  |  |  | to man's way; look, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the folly of fools | deceit |  |  |  |  | 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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חָכְמַ֣ת עָ֭רוּם הָבִ֣ין דַּרְכּ֑וֹ וְאִוֶּ֖לֶת כְּסִילִ֣ים מִרְמָֽה׃

[Proverbs 14:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.8/)

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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:382` 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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