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title: Proverbs 26:16 (JPS 1917) — The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that give wise… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that give wise answer. Who acts: sluggard, seven men. Proverbs 26:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 26:16 · JPS 1917

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The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that give wise answer.

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**Who acts:** sluggard, seven men · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** own eyes, wise answer

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This is Proverbs 26:16 · 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 (sluggard, seven men), 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:765
# text = The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that give wise answer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sluggard	sluggard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the sluggard |  |  | sluggard's own eyes |  | than seven men; wise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | seven men | wise answer |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |

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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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חָכָ֣ם עָצֵ֣ל בְּעֵינָ֑יו מִ֝שִּׁבְעָ֗ה מְשִׁ֣יבֵי טָֽעַם׃

[Proverbs 26:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.16/)

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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:765` 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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