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title: Proverbs 2:21 (JPS 1917) — For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the whole-hearted shall… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the whole-hearted shall remain in it. Who acts: upright, whole hearted. Proverbs 2:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 2:21 · JPS 1917

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For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the whole-hearted shall remain in it.

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**Who acts:** upright, whole hearted · **What happens:** dwell, remain · **To what, where:** land

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This is Proverbs 2:21 · 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 (upright, whole hearted), 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:54
# text = For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the whole-hearted shall remain in it.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | shall | the upright |  |  | the land |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 2 | **remain** | shall | the whole hearted |  |  | land |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |

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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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כִּֽי־יְשָׁרִ֥ים יִשְׁכְּנוּאָ֑רֶץ וּ֝תְמִימִ֗ים יִוָּ֥תְרוּ בָֽהּ׃

[Proverbs 2:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.21/)

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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:54` 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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