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title: Proverbs 17:7 (JPS 1917) — Overbearing speech becometh not a churl; much less do lying lips a p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Overbearing speech becometh not a churl; much less do lying lips a prince. Who acts: Overbearing speech. Proverbs 17:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 17:7 · JPS 1917

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Overbearing speech becometh not a churl; much less do lying lips a prince.

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**Who acts:** Overbearing speech · **What happens:** not become · **To what, where:** churl

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This is Proverbs 17:7 · 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 (Overbearing speech), 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:483
# text = Overbearing speech becometh not a churl; much less do lying lips a prince.
1	Overbearing	overbearing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	becometh	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	churl	churl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	lying	lie	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **not** **become** | present | Overbearing speech | a churl |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient churl=Result |

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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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לֹא־נָאוָ֣ה לְנָבָ֣ל שְׂפַת־יֶ֑תֶר אַ֝֗ף כִּֽי־לְנָדִ֥יב שְׂפַת־שָֽׁקֶר׃

[Proverbs 17:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.7/)

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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:483` 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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