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title: Proverbs 20:30 (JPS 1917) — Sharp wounds cleanse away evil; so do stripes that reach the inward… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sharp wounds cleanse away evil; so do stripes that reach the inward parts. Who acts: Sharp wounds, stripes. Proverbs 20:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 20:30 · JPS 1917

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Sharp wounds cleanse away evil; so do stripes that reach the inward parts.

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**Who acts:** Sharp wounds, stripes · **What happens:** cleanse away, reach · **To what, where:** evil, inward parts

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This is Proverbs 20:30 · 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 (Sharp wounds, stripes), 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:588
# text = Sharp wounds cleanse away evil; so do stripes that reach the inward parts.
1	Sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cleanse	cleanse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	inward	inward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **cleanse away** | present | Sharp wounds | evil |  |  |  |  | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Patient |
| 2 | **reach** | present | stripes | the inward parts |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent part=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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חַבֻּר֣וֹת פֶּ֭צַע תַּמְר֣וּק בְּרָ֑ע וּ֝מַכּ֗וֹת חַדְרֵי־בָֽטֶן׃

[Proverbs 20:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.30/)

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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:588` 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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