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title: Proverbs 16:7 (JPS 1917) — When a man's ways please the LORD, He maketh even his enemies to be… · tree and pragmatics
description: When a man's ways please the LORD, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Who acts: ways, LORD, enemies. Proverbs 16:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 16:7 · JPS 1917

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When a man's ways please the LORD, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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**Who acts:** ways, LORD, enemies · **What happens:** please, make, be · **To what, where:** LORD, enemies, peace

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This is Proverbs 16:7 · 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 (ways, LORD, enemies), 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:450
# text = When a man's ways please the LORD, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	please	please	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	maketh	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **please** | present | a man's ways | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lord=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | present | LORD | LORD's enemies |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Product |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | LORD's enemies *not said here* |  |  | peace |  | with LORD | 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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בִּרְצ֣וֹת יְ֭הוָה דַּרְכֵי־אִ֑ישׁ גַּם־א֝וֹיְבָ֗יו יַשְׁלִ֥ם אִתּֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 16:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.7/)

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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:450` 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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