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title: Proverbs 27:4 (JPS 1917) — Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy? Who acts: Wrath, anger. Proverbs 27:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 27:4 · JPS 1917

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Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

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**Who acts:** Wrath, anger · **What happens:** be, stand · **To what, where:** jealousy

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This is Proverbs 27:4 · 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 (Wrath, anger), 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:781
# text = Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
1	Wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	overwhelming	overwhelming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | Wrath |  |  |  |  | cruel *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | anger |  |  |  |  | overwhelming *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | jealousy |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before jealousy=Location |

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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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אַכְזְרִיּ֣וּת חֵ֭מָה וְשֶׁ֣טֶף אָ֑ף וּמִ֥י יַ֝עֲמֹד לִפְנֵ֥י קִנְאָֽה׃

[Proverbs 27:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.4/)

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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:781` 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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