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title: Proverbs 14:18 (JPS 1917) — The thoughtless come into possession of folly; but the prudent are c… · tree and pragmatics
description: The thoughtless come into possession of folly; but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. Who acts: thoughtless. Proverbs 14:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 14:18 · JPS 1917

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The thoughtless come into possession of folly; but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

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**Who acts:** thoughtless · **What happens:** come, crown, possess · **To what, where:** possession, prudent, folly

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This is Proverbs 14:18 · 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 (thoughtless), 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:392
# text = The thoughtless come into possession of folly; but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thoughtless	thoughtless	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prudent	prudent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | present | the thoughtless |  |  | possession of folly |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into possession=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **crown** | present · passive |  | the prudent |  |  |  | with knowledge | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with knowledge=Theme |
| 3 | **possess** |  |  | folly |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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נָחֲל֣וּ פְתָאיִ֣ם אִוֶּ֑לֶת וַֽ֝עֲרוּמִ֗ים יַכְתִּ֥רוּ דָֽעַת׃

[Proverbs 14:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.18/)

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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:392` 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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