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title: Proverbs 26:12 (JPS 1917) — Seest thou a man wise in his own eyes? there is more hope of a fool… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seest thou a man wise in his own eyes? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Who acts: thou, more hope, fool. Proverbs 26:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 26:12 · JPS 1917

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Seest thou a man wise in his own eyes? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

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**Who acts:** thou, more hope, fool · **What happens:** see, be, hope · **To what, where:** man

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This is Proverbs 26:12 · 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, more hope, fool), 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:761
# text = Seest thou a man wise in his own eyes? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
1	Seest	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | thou | a man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | present | more hope of a fool than fool |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hope** |  | a fool |  |  |  |  | than fool | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent than=obl |

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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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רָאִ֗יתָ אִ֭ישׁ חָכָ֣ם בְּעֵינָ֑יו תִּקְוָ֖ה לִכְסִ֣יל מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃

[Proverbs 26:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.12/)

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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:761` 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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