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title: Proverbs 20:19 (JPS 1917) — He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets; therefore med… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that openeth wide his lips. Who acts: purpose. Proverbs 20:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 20:19 · JPS 1917

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He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that openeth wide his lips.

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**Who acts:** purpose · **What happens:** go about, reveal, not meddle, open · **To what, where:** secrets, lips

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This is Proverbs 20:19 · 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 (purpose), 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:577
# text = He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that openeth wide his lips.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goeth	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	talebearer	talebearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	revealeth	reveal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	meddle	meddle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	openeth	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **go about** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as a talebearer; about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reveal** | present | purpose | secrets |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **meddle** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with purpose; therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | present |  | purpose's lips |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lip=Theme |

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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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גּֽוֹלֶה־סּ֭וֹד הוֹלֵ֣ךְ רָכִ֑יל וּלְפֹתֶ֥ה שְׂ֝פָתָ֗יו לֹ֣א תִתְעָרָֽב׃

[Proverbs 20:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.19/)

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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:577` 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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