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title: Proverbs 24:24 (JPS 1917) — He that saith unto the wicked: 'Thou art righteous', peoples shall c… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that saith unto the wicked: 'Thou art righteous', peoples shall curse him, nations shall execrate him; Who acts: Thou, person, nations. Proverbs 24:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 24:24 · JPS 1917

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He that saith unto the wicked: 'Thou art righteous', peoples shall curse him, nations shall execrate him;

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**Who acts:** Thou, person, nations · **What happens:** say, be, curse, execrate · **To what, where:** LORD, person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 24:24 · 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 (Thou, person, nations), 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:711
# text = He that saith unto the wicked: 'Thou art righteous', peoples shall curse him, nations shall execrate him;
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
12	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	curse	curse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	execrate	execrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  | unto the wicked | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Thou |  |  |  |  | righteous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **curse** | shall | person | LORD |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **execrate** | shall | nations | person |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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אֹ֤מֵ֨ר ׀ לְרָשָׁע֮ צַדִּ֪יק אָ֥תָּה יִקְּבֻ֥הוּ עַמִּ֑ים יִזְעָמ֥וּהוּ לְאֻמִּֽים׃

[Proverbs 24:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.24/)

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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:711` 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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