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title: Proverbs 14:29 (JPS 1917) — He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is h… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. Who acts: king. Proverbs 14:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 14:29 · JPS 1917

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He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** be, exalt · **To what, where:** folly

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This is Proverbs 14:29 · 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 (king), 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:404
# text = He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	exalteth	exalt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to anger; slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | king |  |  |  |  | of great understanding | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of spirit; hasty *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **exalt** | present | king | folly |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer folly=Stimulus |

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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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אֶ֣רֶךְ אַ֭פַּיִם רַב־תְּבוּנָ֑ה וּקְצַר־ר֝֗וּחַ מֵרִ֥ים אִוֶּֽלֶת׃

[Proverbs 14:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.29/)

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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:404` 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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