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title: Proverbs 15:22 (JPS 1917) — For want of counsel purposes are frustrated; but in the multitude of… · tree and pragmatics
description: For want of counsel purposes are frustrated; but in the multitude of counsellors they are established. Proverbs 15:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 15:22 · JPS 1917

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For want of counsel purposes are frustrated; but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

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**What happens:** frustrate, establish, want · **To what, where:** men, multitude, counsel purposes

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This is Proverbs 15:22 · 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: 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:432
# text = For want of counsel purposes are frustrated; but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	frustrated	frustrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frustrate** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for want of counsel purposes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 2 | **establish** | present · passive |  | men *= man* |  | the multitude of counsellors |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **want** |  |  | counsel purposes |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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הָפֵ֣ר מַ֭חֲשָׁבוֹת בְּאֵ֣ין ס֑וֹד וּבְרֹ֖ב יוֹעֲצִ֣ים תָּקֽוּם׃

[Proverbs 15:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.22/)

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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:432` 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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