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title: Proverbs 28:2 (JPS 1917) — For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; but by… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; but by a man of understanding and knowledge established order shall long continue. Who acts: princes, established order, land. Proverbs 28:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 28:2 · JPS 1917

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For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; but by a man of understanding and knowledge established order shall long continue.

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**Who acts:** princes, established order, land · **What happens:** be, establish, continue, transgress

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This is Proverbs 28:2 · 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 (princes, established order, land), 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:806
# text = For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof; but by a man of understanding and knowledge established order shall long continue.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	transgression	transgression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
11	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | the princes |  |  |  |  | for the transgression of a land; many *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **continue** | shall | established order |  |  |  |  | by a man of understanding and knowledge; long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **transgress** |  | a land |  |  |  |  |  | nom transgression «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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בְּפֶ֣שַֽׁע אֶ֭רֶץ רַבִּ֣ים שָׂרֶ֑יהָ וּבְאָדָ֥ם מֵבִ֥ין יֹ֝דֵ֗עַ כֵּ֣ן יַאֲרִֽיךְ׃

[Proverbs 28:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.2/)

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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:806` 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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