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title: Proverbs 14:34 (JPS 1917) — Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people. · tree and pragmatics
description: Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people. Who acts: Righteousness, sin. Proverbs 14:34 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 14:34 · JPS 1917

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Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people.

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**Who acts:** Righteousness, sin · **What happens:** exalt, be · **To what, where:** nation, reproach

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This is Proverbs 14:34 · 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 (Righteousness, sin), 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:409
# text = Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people.
1	Righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	exalteth	exalt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	reproach	reproach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **exalt** | present | Righteousness | a nation |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nation=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | sin | a reproach |  |  |  | to any people | 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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צְדָקָ֥ה תְרֽוֹמֵֽם־גּ֑וֹי וְחֶ֖סֶד לְאֻמִּ֣ים חַטָּֽאת׃

[Proverbs 14:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.34/)

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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:409` 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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