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title: Proverbs 15:11 (JPS 1917) — The nether-world and Destruction are before the LORD; how much more… · tree and pragmatics
description: The nether-world and Destruction are before the LORD; how much more then the hearts of the children of men! Who acts: nether world. Proverbs 15:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 15:11 · JPS 1917

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The nether-world and Destruction are before the LORD; how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

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**Who acts:** nether world · **What happens:** be

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This is Proverbs 15:11 · 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 (nether world), 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:421
# text = The nether-world and Destruction are before the LORD; how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	nether	nether	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	LORD	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the nether world and Destruction |  |  |  | before the LORD and the hearts of the children of men |  | 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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שְׁא֣וֹל וַ֭אֲבַדּוֹן נֶ֣גֶד יְהוָ֑ה אַ֝֗ף כִּֽי־לִבּ֥וֹת בְּֽנֵי־אָדָֽם׃

[Proverbs 15:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.11/)

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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:421` 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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