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title: Proverbs 28:23 (JPS 1917) — He that rebuketh a man shall in the end find more favour than he tha… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that rebuketh a man shall in the end find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue. Who acts: man. Proverbs 28:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 28:23 · JPS 1917

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He that rebuketh a man shall in the end find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** rebuke, find, flatter · **To what, where:** man, more favour, end

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This is Proverbs 28:23 · 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:827
# text = He that rebuketh a man shall in the end find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rebuketh	rebuke	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	advcl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	flattereth	flatter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **rebuke** | present |  | a man |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | shall | man | more favour |  |  | in the end |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic |
| 3 | **flatter** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with the tongue | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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מ֘וֹכִ֤יחַ אָדָ֣ם אַ֭חֲרַי חֵ֣ן יִמְצָ֑א מִֽמַּחֲלִ֥יק לָשֽׁוֹן׃

[Proverbs 28:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.23/)

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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:827` 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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