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title: Proverbs 26:25 (JPS 1917) — When he speaketh fair, believe him not; for there are seven abominat… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he speaketh fair, believe him not; for there are seven abominations in his heart. Who acts: whisperer, you, seven abominations. Proverbs 26:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 26:25 · JPS 1917

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When he speaketh fair, believe him not; for there are seven abominations in his heart.

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**Who acts:** whisperer, you, seven abominations · **What happens:** speak, not believe, be · **To what, where:** whisperer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 26:25 · 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 (whisperer, you, seven abominations), 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:774
# text = When he speaketh fair, believe him not; for there are seven abominations in his heart.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	speaketh	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	believe	believe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	abominations	abomination	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | whisperer |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **believe** | imperative | you *not said here* | whisperer |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **does** | present | seven abominations in whisperer's heart |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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כִּֽי־יְחַנֵּ֣ן ק֭וֹלוֹ אַל־תַּֽאֲמֶן־בּ֑וֹ כִּ֤י שֶׁ֖בַע תּוֹעֵב֣וֹת בְּלִבּֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 26:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.25/)

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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:774` 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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