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title: Proverbs 28:4 (JPS 1917) — They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the la… · tree and pragmatics
description: They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them. Who acts: princes, such. Proverbs 28:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 28:4 · JPS 1917

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They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.

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**Who acts:** princes, such · **What happens:** forsake, praise, keep, contend · **To what, where:** law, wicked

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This is Proverbs 28:4 · 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 (princes, such), 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:808
# text = They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forsake	forsake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	praise	praise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	such	such	PRON	JJ	_	16	nsubj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	contend	contend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forsake** | present |  | the law |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **praise** | present | princes *= prince* | the wicked |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wicked=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | present |  | the law |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme |
| 4 | **contend** | present | such |  |  |  |  | with princes *= prince* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-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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עֹזְבֵ֣י ת֭וֹרָה יְהַֽלְל֣וּ רָשָׁ֑ע וְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י ת֝וֹרָ֗ה יִתְגָּ֥רוּ בָֽם׃פ

[Proverbs 28:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.4/)

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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:808` 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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