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title: Proverbs 28:17 (JPS 1917) — A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall hasten his st… · tree and pragmatics
description: A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall hasten his steps unto the pit; none will support him. Who acts: man, none. Proverbs 28:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 28:17 · JPS 1917

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A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall hasten his steps unto the pit; none will support him.

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**Who acts:** man, none · **What happens:** lade, hasten, support, step · **To what, where:** man, steps

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This is Proverbs 28:17 · 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, none), 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:821
# text = A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall hasten his steps unto the pit; none will support him.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **lade** | present · passive |  | a man |  |  |  | with the blood of any person | tree rules |
| 2 | **hasten** | shall | a man | man's steps |  |  |  | unto the pit | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent step=Patient |
| 3 | **support** | future | none | man |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **step** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: 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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אָ֭דָם עָשֻׁ֣ק בְּדַם־נָפֶשׁעַד־בּ֥וֹר יָ֝נ֗וּס אַל־יִתְמְכוּ־בֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 28:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.17/)

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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:821` 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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