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title: Proverbs 25:14 (JPS 1917) — As vapours and wind without rain, so is he that boasteth himself of… · tree and pragmatics
description: As vapours and wind without rain, so is he that boasteth himself of a false gift. Who acts: that. Proverbs 25:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 25:14 · JPS 1917

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As vapours and wind without rain, so is he that boasteth himself of a false gift.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** be, boast · **To what, where:** neighbour

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This is Proverbs 25:14 · 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 (that), 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:735
# text = As vapours and wind without rain, so is he that boasteth himself of a false gift.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	vapours	vapour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	advcl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
12	boasteth	boast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is a** | present | that | neighbour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **boast** *speech: other* | present |  | neighbour |  |  |  | of a false gift | tree rules |

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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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נְשִׂיאִ֣ים וְ֭רוּחַ וְגֶ֣שֶׁם אָ֑יִן אִ֥ישׁ מִ֝תְהַלֵּ֗ל בְּמַתַּת־שָֽׁקֶר׃

[Proverbs 25:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.14/)

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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:735` 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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