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title: Proverbs 14:16 (JPS 1917) — A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil; but the fool behaveth o… · tree and pragmatics
description: A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil; but the fool behaveth overbearingly, and is confident. Who acts: wise man, fool. Proverbs 14:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 14:16 · JPS 1917

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A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil; but the fool behaveth overbearingly, and is confident.

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**Who acts:** wise man, fool · **What happens:** fear, depart, behave, be · **To what, where:** evil

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This is Proverbs 14:16 · 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 (wise man, fool), 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:390
# text = A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil; but the fool behaveth overbearingly, and is confident.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feareth	fear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	departeth	depart	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	behaveth	behave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	overbearingly	overbearingly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	confident	confident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | present | a wise man |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **depart** | present | a wise man *not said here* |  |  | evil |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from evil=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **behave** | present | the fool |  |  |  |  | overbearingly *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | the fool *not said here* |  |  |  |  | confident *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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חָכָ֣ם יָ֭רֵא וְסָ֣ר מֵרָ֑ע וּ֝כְסִ֗יל מִתְעַבֵּ֥ר וּבוֹטֵֽחַ׃

[Proverbs 14:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.16/)

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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:390` 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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