--- title: Proverbs 14:22 (JPS 1917) — But mercy and truth shall be for them that devise good. · tree and pragmatics description: But mercy and truth shall be for them that devise good. Who acts: mercy. 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.397/) [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 2 # Proverbs 14:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 But mercy and truth shall be for them that devise good. **Who acts:** mercy · **What happens:** be, devise This is Proverbs 14:22 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (mercy), 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:397 # text = But mercy and truth shall be for them that devise good. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 mercy mercy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 0 root _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 devise devise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | shall | mercy and truth | | | | | for mercy | tree rules | | 2 | **devise** | present | | | | | | good *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.396/) 2. **But mercy and truth shall be for them that devise good.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:397` 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 14:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.396/) - next →: [Proverbs 14:23 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.398/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 14:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.22/)