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title: Proverbs 21:10 (JPS 1917) — The soul of the wicked desireth evil; his neighbour findeth no favou… · tree and pragmatics
description: The soul of the wicked desireth evil; his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. Who acts: soul, neighbour. Proverbs 21:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 21:10 · JPS 1917

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The soul of the wicked desireth evil; his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

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**Who acts:** soul, neighbour · **What happens:** desire, find · **To what, where:** evil, favour, eyes

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This is Proverbs 21:10 · 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 (soul, neighbour), 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:598
# text = The soul of the wicked desireth evil; his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	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	desireth	desire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	findeth	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | present | the soul of the wicked | evil |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot evil=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present | soul's neighbour | no favour |  | soul's eyes |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic |

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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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נֶ֣פֶשׁ רָ֭שָׁע אִוְּתָה־רָ֑ע לֹא־יֻחַ֖ן בְּעֵינָ֣יו רֵעֵֽהוּ׃

[Proverbs 21:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.10/)

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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:598` 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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