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title: Proverbs 21:21 (JPS 1917) — He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, prospe… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, prosperity, and honour. Who acts: man. Proverbs 21:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 21:21 · JPS 1917

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He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, prosperity, and honour.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** follow, find · **To what, where:** life

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This is Proverbs 21:21 · 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 (man), 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:609
# text = He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, prosperity, and honour.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	1	nsubj	_	_
3	followeth	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	findeth	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **follow** | present |  |  |  |  | after righteousness and mercy |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after righteousness=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present | man | life and prosperity and honour |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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רֹ֭דֵף צְדָקָ֣ה וָחָ֑סֶד יִמְצָ֥א חַ֝יִּ֗ים צְדָקָ֥ה וְכָבֽוֹד׃

[Proverbs 21:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.21/)

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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:609` 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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