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title: Proverbs 21:30 (JPS 1917) — There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD. · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD. Who acts: wisdom. Proverbs 21:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 21:30 · JPS 1917

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There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

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**Who acts:** wisdom · **What happens:** be

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This is Proverbs 21:30 · 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 (wisdom), 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:618
# text = There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	_	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
6	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc	_	_
8	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **does** | present | no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel |  |  | there |  | against the LORD | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against lord=Location |

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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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אֵ֣ין חָ֭כְמָה וְאֵ֣ין תְּבוּנָ֑ה וְאֵ֥ין עֵ֝צָ֗ה לְנֶ֣גֶד יְהוָֽה׃פ

[Proverbs 21:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.30/)

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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:618` 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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