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title: Proverbs 16:6 (JPS 1917) — By mercy and truth iniquity is expiated; and by the fear of the LORD… · tree and pragmatics
description: By mercy and truth iniquity is expiated; and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil. Who acts: mercy, men. Proverbs 16:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 16:6 · JPS 1917

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By mercy and truth iniquity is expiated; and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

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**Who acts:** mercy, men · **What happens:** expiate, depart, fear · **To what, where:** iniquity, evil, LORD

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This is Proverbs 16:6 · 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 (mercy, men), 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:449
# text = By mercy and truth iniquity is expiated; and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	expiated	expiate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	depart	depart	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **expiate** | present · passive | mercy and truth | iniquity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **depart** | present | men |  |  | evil |  | by the fear of the LORD | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from evil=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fear** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling 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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בְּחֶ֣סֶד וֶ֭אֱמֶת יְכֻפַּ֣ר עָוֺ֑ן וּבְיִרְאַ֥ת יְ֝הוָ֗ה ס֣וּר מֵרָֽע׃

[Proverbs 16:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.6/)

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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:449` 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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