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title: Proverbs 16:28 (JPS 1917) — A froward man soweth strife; and a whisperer separateth familiar fri… · tree and pragmatics
description: A froward man soweth strife; and a whisperer separateth familiar friends. Who acts: froward man, whisperer. Proverbs 16:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 16:28 · JPS 1917

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A froward man soweth strife; and a whisperer separateth familiar friends.

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**Who acts:** froward man, whisperer · **What happens:** sow, separate · **To what, where:** strife, familiar friends

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This is Proverbs 16:28 · 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 (froward man, whisperer), 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:471
# text = A froward man soweth strife; and a whisperer separateth familiar friends.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	froward	froward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	soweth	sow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	whisperer	whisperer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	separateth	separate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **sow** | present | a froward man | strife |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent strife=Theme |
| 2 | **separate** | present | a whisperer | familiar friends |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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אִ֣ישׁ תַּ֭הְפֻּכוֹת יְשַׁלַּ֣ח מָד֑וֹן וְ֝נִרְגָּ֗ןמַפְרִ֥יד אַלּֽוּף׃

[Proverbs 16:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.28/)

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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:471` 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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