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title: Proverbs 21:12 (JPS 1917) — The Righteous One considereth the house of the wicked; overthrowing… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Righteous One considereth the house of the wicked; overthrowing the wicked to their ruin. Who acts: Righteous One, eyes. Proverbs 21:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 21:12 · JPS 1917

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The Righteous One considereth the house of the wicked; overthrowing the wicked to their ruin.

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**Who acts:** Righteous One, eyes · **What happens:** consider, overthrow, ruin · **To what, where:** house, wicked

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This is Proverbs 21:12 · 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 (Righteous One, eyes), 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:600
# text = The Righteous One considereth the house of the wicked; overthrowing the wicked to their ruin.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	considereth	consider	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	overthrowing	overthrow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **consider** | present | the Righteous One | the house of the wicked |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent house=Attribute |
| 2 | **overthrow** | gerund | the Righteous One *not said here* | the wicked |  |  |  | to eyes's ruin | tree rules |
| 3 | **ruin** |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=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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מַשְׂכִּ֣יל צַ֭דִּיק לְבֵ֣ית רָשָׁ֑ע מְסַלֵּ֖ף רְשָׁעִ֣ים לָרָֽע׃

[Proverbs 21:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.12/)

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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:600` 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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