--- title: Proverbs 14:22 (JPS 1917) — Shall they not go astray that devise evil? · tree and pragmatics description: Shall they not go astray that devise evil? Who acts: wicked. Proverbs 14:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.396/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Proverbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/) / [chapter 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/14/) / [14:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.22/) / JPS 1 # Proverbs 14:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 Shall they not go astray that devise evil? **Who acts:** wicked · **What happens:** not go, devise · **To what, where:** evil This is Proverbs 14:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (wicked), 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:396 # text = Shall they not go astray that devise evil? 1 Shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 astray astray ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 devise devise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 8 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **go** | shall | wicked | | | | | astray *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **devise** | present | | evil | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Patient | 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} הֲ‍ֽלוֹא־יִ֭תְעוּ חֹ֣רְשֵׁי רָ֑ע וְחֶ֥סֶד וֶ֝אֱמֶ֗ת חֹ֣רְשֵׁי טֽוֹב׃ [Proverbs 14:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.22/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Shall they not go astray that devise evil?** 2. [But mercy and truth shall be for them that devise good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.397/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:396` 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. - ← previous: [Proverbs 14:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.395/) - next →: [Proverbs 14:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.397/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 14:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.22/)