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title: Proverbs 19:21 (JPS 1917) — There are many devices in a man's heart; but the counsel of the LORD… · tree and pragmatics
description: There are many devices in a man's heart; but the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand. Who acts: many devices, counsel. Proverbs 19:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 19:21 · JPS 1917

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There are many devices in a man's heart; but the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

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**Who acts:** many devices, counsel · **What happens:** be, stand

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This is Proverbs 19:21 · 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 (many devices, counsel), 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:550
# text = There are many devices in a man's heart; but the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	devices	device	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | many devices in a man's heart |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | shall | the counsel of the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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רַבּ֣וֹת מַחֲשָׁב֣וֹת בְּלֶב־אִ֑ישׁ וַעֲצַ֥ת יְ֝הוָ֗ה הִ֣יא תָקֽוּם׃

[Proverbs 19:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.21/)

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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:550` 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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