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title: Proverbs 21:7 (JPS 1917) — The violence of the wicked shall drag them away; because they refuse… · tree and pragmatics
description: The violence of the wicked shall drag them away; because they refuse to do justly. Who acts: violence, thoughts. Proverbs 21:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 21:7 · JPS 1917

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The violence of the wicked shall drag them away; because they refuse to do justly.

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**Who acts:** violence, thoughts · **What happens:** drag away, refuse, not do · **To what, where:** thoughts

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This is Proverbs 21:7 · 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 (violence, thoughts), 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:595
# text = The violence of the wicked shall drag them away; because they refuse to do justly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	refuse	refuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	justly	justly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **drag away** | shall | the violence of the wicked | thoughts *= thought* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **refuse** | present | thoughts *= thought* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **do** | to-infinitive | thoughts *= thought* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | justly *property* | vn act-114-1 «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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שֹׁד־רְשָׁעִ֥ים יְגוֹרֵ֑ם כִּ֥י מֵ֝אֲנ֗וּ לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת מִשְׁפָּֽט׃

[Proverbs 21:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.7/)

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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:595` 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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