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title: Proverbs 28:18 (JPS 1917) — Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved; but he that is perverse in h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved; but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once. Who acts: man. Proverbs 28:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 28:18 · JPS 1917

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Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved; but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** walk, save, be, fall · **To what, where:** Whoso, ways

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This is Proverbs 28:18 · 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), 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:822
# text = Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved; but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
1	Whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	walketh	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
3	uprightly	uprightly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	perverse	perverse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present |  |  |  |  |  | uprightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | shall · passive |  | Whoso |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  | man's ways |  | perverse *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | shall | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |

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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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הוֹלֵ֣ךְ תָּ֭מִים יִוָּשֵׁ֑עַ וְנֶעְקַ֥שׁ דְּ֝רָכַ֗יִם יִפּ֥וֹל בְּאֶחָֽת׃

[Proverbs 28:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.18/)

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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:822` 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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