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title: Proverbs 17:26 (JPS 1917) — To punish also the righteous is not good, nor to strike the noble fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: To punish also the righteous is not good, nor to strike the noble for their uprightness. Proverbs 17:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 17:26 · JPS 1917

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To punish also the righteous is not good, nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.

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**What happens:** punish, not be, strike · **To what, where:** righteous, noble

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This is Proverbs 17:26 · 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: 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:502
# text = To punish also the righteous is not good, nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	csubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	csubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	uprightness	uprightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **punish** | to-infinitive |  | the righteous |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent righteous=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **strike** | to-infinitive |  | the noble |  |  |  | for fathers's uprightness | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noble=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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גַּ֤ם עֲנ֣וֹשׁ לַצַּדִּ֣יק לֹא־ט֑וֹב לְהַכּ֖וֹת נְדִיבִ֣ים עַל־יֹֽשֶׁר׃

[Proverbs 17:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.26/)

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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:502` 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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