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title: Proverbs 21:11 (JPS 1917) — When the scorner is punished, the thoughtless is made wise; and when… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the scorner is punished, the thoughtless is made wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. Who acts: neighbour. Proverbs 21:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 21:11 · JPS 1917

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When the scorner is punished, the thoughtless is made wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

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**Who acts:** neighbour · **What happens:** punish, make, instruct, receive · **To what, where:** scorner, thoughtless, wise, knowledge

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This is Proverbs 21:11 · 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 (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:599
# text = When the scorner is punished, the thoughtless is made wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	scorner	scorner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thoughtless	thoughtless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wise	wise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	receiveth	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **punish** | present · passive |  | the scorner |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | the thoughtless |  |  |  | wise *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **instruct** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the wise |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **receive** | present | neighbour | knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=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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בַּעְנָשׁ־לֵ֭ץיֶחְכַּם־פֶּ֑תִי וּבְהַשְׂכִּ֥יל לְ֝חָכָ֗ם יִקַּח־דָּֽעַת׃

[Proverbs 21:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.11/)

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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:599` 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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