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title: Proverbs 26:27 (JPS 1917) — Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him. Who acts: Whoso, wickedness. Proverbs 26:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 26:27 · JPS 1917

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Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.

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**Who acts:** Whoso, wickedness · **What happens:** dig, fall, roll, return · **To what, where:** pit, stone

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This is Proverbs 26:27 · 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 (Whoso, wickedness), 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:776
# text = Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.
1	Whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
2	diggeth	dig	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rolleth	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | present |  | a pit |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pit=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | shall | Whoso |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roll** | present |  | a stone |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Agent |
| 4 | **return** | shall | wickedness |  |  |  |  | upon whisperer | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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כֹּֽרֶה־שַּׁ֭חַת בָּ֣הּ יִפֹּ֑ל וְגֹ֥לֵ֥ל אֶ֝בֶן אֵלָ֥יו תָּשֽׁוּב׃

[Proverbs 26:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.27/)

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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:776` 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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