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title: Proverbs 21:27 (JPS 1917) — The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more, when h… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more, when he bringeth it with the proceeds of wickedness? Who acts: sacrifice, righteous. Proverbs 21:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 21:27 · JPS 1917

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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more, when he bringeth it with the proceeds of wickedness?

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**Who acts:** sacrifice, righteous · **What happens:** be, bring · **To what, where:** abomination, sacrifice

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This is Proverbs 21:27 · 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 (sacrifice, righteous), 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:615
# text = The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more, when he bringeth it with the proceeds of wickedness?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	abomination	abomination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	parataxis	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bringeth	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	proceeds	proceeds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the sacrifice of the wicked | a abomination |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | present | righteous | sacrifice |  |  |  | with the proceeds of wickedness | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=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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זֶ֣בַח רְ֭שָׁעִים תּוֹעֵבָ֑ה אַ֝֗ף כִּֽי־בְזִמָּ֥ה יְבִיאֶֽנּוּ׃

[Proverbs 21:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.27/)

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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:615` 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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