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title: Proverbs 28:12 (JPS 1917) — When the righteous exult, there is great glory; but when the wicked… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the righteous exult, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men must be sought for. Who acts: righteous, great glory, wicked. Proverbs 28:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 28:12 · JPS 1917

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When the righteous exult, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men must be sought for.

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**Who acts:** righteous, great glory, wicked · **What happens:** exult, be, rise, seek · **To what, where:** men

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This is Proverbs 28:12 · 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 (righteous, great glory, wicked), 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:816
# text = When the righteous exult, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men must be sought for.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	righteous	righteous	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	exult	exult	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wicked	wicked	NOUN	NN	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	_	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exult** | present | righteous |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **be** | present | great glory |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rise** | present | wicked |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seek** | must · passive |  | men |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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בַּעֲלֹ֣ץ צַ֭דִּיקִים רַבָּ֣ה תִפְאָ֑רֶת וּבְק֥וּם רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים יְחֻפַּ֥שׂ אָדָֽם׃

[Proverbs 28:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.12/)

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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:816` 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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