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title: Proverbs 16:25 (JPS 1917) — There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof a… · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Who acts: way, end. Proverbs 16:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 16:25 · JPS 1917

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There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

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**Who acts:** way, end · **What happens:** be, seem · **To what, where:** ways

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This is Proverbs 16:25 · 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 (way, end), 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:468
# text = There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seemeth	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	_	6	xcomp	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **be** | present | a way |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | present | a way |  |  |  |  | unto a man; right *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the end | the ways |  |  |  | of death; thereof *property* | 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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יֵ֤שׁ דֶּ֣רֶךְ יָ֭שָׁר לִפְנֵי־אִ֑ישׁ וְ֝אַחֲרִיתָ֗הּ דַּרְכֵי־מָֽוֶת׃

[Proverbs 16:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.25/)

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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:468` 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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