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title: Proverbs 18:14 (JPS 1917) — The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a broken spirit… · tree and pragmatics
description: The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a broken spirit who can bear? Who acts: spirit. Proverbs 18:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 18:14 · JPS 1917

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The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a broken spirit who can bear?

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**Who acts:** spirit · **What happens:** sustain, bear · **To what, where:** infirmity, broken spirit

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This is Proverbs 18:14 · 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 (spirit), 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:518
# text = The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a broken spirit who can bear?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sustain	sustain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	infirmity	infirmity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sustain** | future | the spirit of a man | man's infirmity |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent infirmity=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | can | the spirit of a man *not said here* | a broken spirit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Beneficiary who=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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רֽוּחַ־אִ֭ישׁ יְכַלְכֵּ֣ל מַחֲלֵ֑הוּ וְר֥וּחַ נְ֝כֵאָ֗ה מִ֣י יִשָּׂאֶֽנָּה׃

[Proverbs 18:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.14/)

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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:518` 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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