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title: Proverbs 15:18 (JPS 1917) — A wrathful man stirreth up discord; but he that is slow to anger app… · tree and pragmatics
description: A wrathful man stirreth up discord; but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. Who acts: wrathful man, love. Proverbs 15:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 15:18 · JPS 1917

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A wrathful man stirreth up discord; but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

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**Who acts:** wrathful man, love · **What happens:** stir up, be, appease · **To what, where:** discord, strife

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This is Proverbs 15:18 · 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 (wrathful man, love), 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:428
# text = A wrathful man stirreth up discord; but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wrathful	wrathful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stirreth	stir	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	discord	discord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	appeaseth	appease	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: none
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stir up** | present | a wrathful man | discord |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition discord=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to anger; slow *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **appease** | present | love | strife |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus strife=Experiencer |

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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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אִ֣ישׁ חֵ֭מָה יְגָרֶ֣ה מָד֑וֹן וְאֶ֥רֶךאַ֝פַּ֗יִם יַשְׁקִ֥יט רִֽיב׃

[Proverbs 15:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.18/)

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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:428` 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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