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title: Proverbs 16:12 (JPS 1917) — It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; for the throne i… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; for the throne is established by righteousness. Who acts: mouth, righteousness. Proverbs 16:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 16:12 · JPS 1917

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It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; for the throne is established by righteousness.

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**Who acts:** mouth, righteousness · **What happens:** be, commit, establish · **To what, where:** abomination, wickedness, throne

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This is Proverbs 16:12 · 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 (mouth, righteousness), 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:455
# text = It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; for the throne is established by righteousness.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	abomination	abomination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	commit	commit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
9	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | mouth | a abomination |  |  |  | to kings | tree rules |
| 2 | **commit** | to-infinitive |  | wickedness |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wickedness=Theme |
| 3 | **establish** | present · passive | righteousness | the throne |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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תּוֹעֲבַ֣ת מְ֭לָכִים עֲשׂ֣וֹת רֶ֑שַׁע כִּ֥י בִ֝צְדָקָ֗ה יִכּ֥וֹן כִּסֵּֽא׃

[Proverbs 16:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.12/)

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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:455` 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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