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title: Proverbs 16:1 (JPS 1917) — The preparations of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongu… · tree and pragmatics
description: The preparations of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. Who acts: preparations, answer. Proverbs 16:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 16:1 · JPS 1917

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The preparations of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.

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**Who acts:** preparations, answer · **What happens:** be, prepare, answer · **To what, where:** heart, tongue

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This is Proverbs 16:1 · 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 (preparations, answer), 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:444
# text = The preparations of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	LORD	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the preparations of the heart |  |  |  |  | 's man but the LORD | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the answer of the tongue |  |  |  |  | from the LORD | tree rules |
| 3 | **prepare** |  |  | the heart |  |  |  |  | nom preparation «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **answer** |  |  | the tongue |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication 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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לְאָדָ֥ם מַֽעַרְכֵי־לֵ֑ב וּ֝מֵיְהוָ֗ה מַעֲנֵ֥ה לָשֽׁוֹן׃

[Proverbs 16:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.1/)

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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:444` 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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