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title: Proverbs 24:23 (JPS 1917) — To have respect of persons in judgment is not good. · tree and pragmatics
description: To have respect of persons in judgment is not good. Proverbs 24:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 24:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

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**What happens:** have, not be, respect · **To what, where:** respect, judgment, persons

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This is Proverbs 24:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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: 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:710
# text = To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	csubj	_	_
3	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | respect of persons |  | judgment |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **respect** |  |  | persons |  | judgment |  |  | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient in=place |

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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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גַּם־אֵ֥לֶּה לַֽחֲכָמִ֑ים הַֽכֵּר־פָּנִ֖ים בְּמִשְׁפָּ֣ט בַּל־טֽוֹב׃

[Proverbs 24:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.23/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [These also are sayings of the wise.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.709/)
2. **To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.**

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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:710` 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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