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title: Proverbs 22:3 (JPS 1917) — A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the thoughtles… · tree and pragmatics
description: A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the thoughtless pass on, and are punished. Who acts: prudent man, thoughtless. Proverbs 22:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 22:3 · JPS 1917

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A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the thoughtless pass on, and are punished.

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**Who acts:** prudent man, thoughtless · **What happens:** see, hide, pass on, punish · **To what, where:** evil, man

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This is Proverbs 22:3 · 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 (prudent man, thoughtless), 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:622
# text = A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the thoughtless pass on, and are punished.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	prudent	prudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seeth	see	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	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hideth	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thoughtless	thoughtless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | a prudent man | the evil |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hide** | present | a prudent man *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **pass on** | present | the thoughtless |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **punish** | present · passive | the thoughtless *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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עָר֤וּם ׀ רָאָ֣ה רָעָ֣ה וְנִסְתָּ֑ר וּ֝פְתָיִ֗ים עָבְר֥וּ וְֽנֶעֱנָֽשׁוּ׃

[Proverbs 22:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.3/)

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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:622` 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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