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title: Proverbs 26:10 (JPS 1917) — A master performeth all things; but he that stoppeth a fool is as on… · tree and pragmatics
description: A master performeth all things; but he that stoppeth a fool is as one that stoppeth a flood. Who acts: master. Proverbs 26:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 26:10 · JPS 1917

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A master performeth all things; but he that stoppeth a fool is as one that stoppeth a flood.

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** perform, stop, be · **To what, where:** things, fool, flood

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This is Proverbs 26:10 · 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 (master), 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:759
# text = A master performeth all things; but he that stoppeth a fool is as one that stoppeth a flood.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	performeth	perform	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stoppeth	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stoppeth	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **perform** | present | a master | all things |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | present |  | a fool |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fool=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | master |  |  |  |  | as one | tree rules |
| 4 | **stop** | present |  | a flood |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality flood=Eventuality |

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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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רַ֥ב מְחֽוֹלֵֽל־כֹּ֑ל וְשֹׂכֵ֥ר כְּ֝סִ֗יל וְשֹׂכֵ֥ר עֹבְרִֽים׃

[Proverbs 26:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.10/)

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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:759` 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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