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title: Proverbs 26:23 (JPS 1917) — Burning lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid… · tree and pragmatics
description: Burning lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross. Who acts: Burning lips. Proverbs 26:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 26:23 · JPS 1917

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Burning lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

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**Who acts:** Burning lips · **What happens:** be, overlay · **To what, where:** earthen vessel

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This is Proverbs 26:23 · 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 (Burning lips), 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:772
# text = Burning lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
1	Burning	burn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	earthen	earthen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	overlaid	overlay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dross	dross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is** | present | Burning lips and a wicked heart |  |  |  |  | like a earthen vessel | tree rules |
| 2 | **overlay** | participle |  | a earthen vessel *not said here* |  |  |  | with silver dross | 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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כֶּ֣סֶף סִ֭יגִים מְצֻפֶּ֣ה עַל־חָ֑רֶשׂ שְׂפָתַ֖יִם דֹּלְקִ֣ים וְלֶב־רָֽע׃

[Proverbs 26:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.23/)

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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:772` 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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