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title: Proverbs 2:12 (JPS 1917) — To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak frowar… · tree and pragmatics
description: To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things; Who acts: men. Proverbs 2:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 2:12 · JPS 1917

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To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things;

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** deliver, speak · **To what, where:** thee, way, froward things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 2:12 · 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 (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:45
# text = To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things;
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	froward	froward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: other
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag, act=other, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliver** | to-infinitive |  | thee |  | the way of evil |  | from the men | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent thou=Theme from way=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | the men | froward things |  |  |  |  | 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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לְ֭הַצִּ֣ילְךָ מִדֶּ֣רֶךְ רָ֑ע מֵ֝אִ֗ישׁ מְדַבֵּ֥ר תַּהְפֻּכֽוֹת׃

[Proverbs 2:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.12/)

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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:45` 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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