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title: Proverbs 21:6 (JPS 1917) — The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and… · tree and pragmatics
description: The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death. Who acts: getting, thoughts, lying tongue. Proverbs 21:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 21:6 · JPS 1917

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The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death.

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**Who acts:** getting, thoughts, lying tongue · **What happens:** lie, be, drive, seek, get · **To what, where:** vapour, thoughts, death, treasures

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This is Proverbs 21:6 · 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 (getting, thoughts, lying tongue), 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:594
# text = The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	getting	getting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	vapour	vapour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fro	fro	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the getting of treasures by a lying tongue | a vapour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drive** | participle |  | a vapour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seek** | present |  | thoughts *= thought* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **seek** | present | thoughts *= thought* | death |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme |
| 6 | **get** |  | a lying tongue | treasures |  |  |  |  | nom getting «act transitive»: of=patient by=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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פֹּ֣עַל א֭וֹצָרוֹת בִּלְשׁ֣וֹן שָׁ֑קֶר הֶ֥בֶל נִ֝דָּ֗ף מְבַקְשֵׁי־מָֽוֶת׃

[Proverbs 21:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.6/)

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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:594` 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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