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title: Proverbs 14:25 (JPS 1917) — A true witness delivereth souls; but he that breatheth forth lies is… · tree and pragmatics
description: A true witness delivereth souls; but he that breatheth forth lies is all deceit. Who acts: true witness, witness. Proverbs 14:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 14:25 · JPS 1917

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A true witness delivereth souls; but he that breatheth forth lies is all deceit.

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**Who acts:** true witness, witness · **What happens:** deliver, breathe, be · **To what, where:** souls, lies, deceit

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This is Proverbs 14:25 · 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 (true witness, witness), 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:400
# text = A true witness delivereth souls; but he that breatheth forth lies is all deceit.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	delivereth	deliver	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	breatheth	breathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	deceit	deceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **deliver** | present | a true witness | souls |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient |
| 2 | **breathe** | present |  | lies |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | witness | deceit |  |  |  | all *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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מַצִּ֣יל נְ֭פָשׁוֹת עֵ֣ד אֱמֶ֑ת וְיָפִ֖חַ כְּזָבִ֣ים מִרְמָֽה׃

[Proverbs 14:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.25/)

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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:400` 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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