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title: Proverbs 16:32 (JPS 1917) — He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rule… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. Who acts: whisperer. Proverbs 16:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 16:32 · JPS 1917

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He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

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**Who acts:** whisperer · **What happens:** be, rule, take · **To what, where:** spirit, city

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This is Proverbs 16:32 · 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 (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:475
# text = He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mighty	mighty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ruleth	rule	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	conj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	taketh	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to anger; slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | whisperer |  |  |  |  | than the mighty; good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rule** | present |  | whisperer's spirit |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | present |  | a city |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |

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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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ט֤וֹב אֶ֣רֶךְ אַ֭פַּיִם מִגִּבּ֑וֹר וּמֹשֵׁ֥ל בְּ֝רוּח֗וֹ מִלֹּכֵ֥ד עִֽיר׃

[Proverbs 16:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.16.32/)

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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:475` 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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