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title: Proverbs 25:28 (JPS 1917) — Like a city broken down and without a wall, so is he whose spirit is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like a city broken down and without a wall, so is he whose spirit is without restraint. Who acts: spirit. Proverbs 25:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 25:28 · JPS 1917

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Like a city broken down and without a wall, so is he whose spirit is without restraint.

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**Who acts:** spirit · **What happens:** break down, be · **To what, where:** city, foot

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This is Proverbs 25:28 · 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 (spirit), 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:749
# text = Like a city broken down and without a wall, so is he whose spirit is without restraint.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
4	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
14	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	without	without	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	restraint	restraint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **break down** | participle |  | a city and a wall *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | foot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | restraint's spirit |  |  |  |  | without restraint | 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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עִ֣יר פְּ֭רוּצָה אֵ֣ין חוֹמָ֑ה אִ֝֗ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֵ֖ין מַעְצָ֣ר לְרוּחֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 25:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.28/)

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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:749` 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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