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title: Proverbs 19:7 (JPS 1917) — He that pursueth words, they turn against him. · tree and pragmatics
description: He that pursueth words, they turn against him. Who acts: friends. Proverbs 19:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 19:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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He that pursueth words, they turn against him.

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**Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** pursue, turn · **To what, where:** words

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This is Proverbs 19:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (friends), 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:536
# text = He that pursueth words, they turn against him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	dislocated	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pursueth	pursue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **pursue** | present |  | words |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | present | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | against poor; poor *dislocated* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against he=Trajectory |

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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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כָּ֥ל אֲחֵי־רָ֨שׁ ׀ שְֽׂנֵאֻ֗הוּ אַ֤ף כִּ֣י מְ֭רֵעֵהוּ רָחֲק֣וּ מִמֶּ֑נּוּ מְרַדֵּ֖ף אֲמָרִ֣ים לוֹ־הֵֽמָּה׃

[Proverbs 19:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.7/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [All the brethren of the poor do hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.535/)
2. **He that pursueth words, they turn against him.**

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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:536` 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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