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title: Proverbs 28:13 (JPS 1917) — He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso con… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy. Who acts: man, whoso. Proverbs 28:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 28:13 · JPS 1917

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He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.

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**Who acts:** man, whoso · **What happens:** cover, not prosper, confess, forsake, obtain, transgress · **To what, where:** transgressions, wicked, mercy

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This is Proverbs 28:13 · 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 (man, whoso), 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:817
# text = He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	covereth	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	transgressions	transgression	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	prosper	prosper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	confesseth	confess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	forsaketh	forsake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **cover** | present |  | man's transgressions |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme transgression=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **prosper** | shall | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **confess** | present | whoso |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **forsake** | present | whoso *not said here* | wicked |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **obtain** | shall |  | mercy |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mercy=Theme |
| 6 | **transgress** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom transgression «act intransitive»: poss=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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מְכַסֶּ֣ה פְ֭שָׁעָיו לֹ֣א יַצְלִ֑יחַ וּמוֹדֶ֖ה וְעֹזֵ֣ב יְרֻחָֽם׃

[Proverbs 28:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.13/)

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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:817` 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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