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title: Proverbs 18:5 (JPS 1917) — It is not good to respect the person of the wicked, so as to turn as… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not good to respect the person of the wicked, so as to turn aside the righteous in judgment. Proverbs 18:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 18:5 · JPS 1917

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It is not good to respect the person of the wicked, so as to turn aside the righteous in judgment.

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**What happens:** not be, respect, turn aside · **To what, where:** person, righteous

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This is Proverbs 18:5 · 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:509
# text = It is not good to respect the person of the wicked, so as to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	respect	respect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
17	aside	aside	ADV	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	righteous	righteous	ADJ	NN	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **respect** | to-infinitive |  | the person of the wicked |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
| 3 | **turn aside** | to-infinitive |  | the righteous |  |  |  | in judgment | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent righteous=Patient in judgment=Topic |

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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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שְׂאֵ֣ת פְּנֵי־רָשָׁ֣ע לֹא־ט֑וֹב לְהַטּ֥וֹת צַ֝דִּ֗יק בַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃

[Proverbs 18:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.5/)

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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:509` 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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