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title: Proverbs 20:18 (JPS 1917) — Every purpose is established by counsel; and with good advice carry… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every purpose is established by counsel; and with good advice carry on war. Who acts: counsel. Proverbs 20:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 20:18 · JPS 1917

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Every purpose is established by counsel; and with good advice carry on war.

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**Who acts:** counsel · **What happens:** establish, carry · **To what, where:** purpose, war

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This is Proverbs 20:18 · 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 (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:576
# text = Every purpose is established by counsel; and with good advice carry on war.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **establish** | present · passive | counsel | every purpose |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | infinitive | counsel *not said here* |  |  | war |  | with good advice | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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מַ֭חֲשָׁבוֹת בְּעֵצָ֣ה תִכּ֑וֹן וּ֝בְתַחְבֻּל֗וֹת עֲשֵׂ֣ה מִלְחָמָֽה׃

[Proverbs 20:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.18/)

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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:576` 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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