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title: Proverbs 29:8 (JPS 1917) — Scornful men set a city in a blaze; but wise men turn away wrath. · tree and pragmatics
description: Scornful men set a city in a blaze; but wise men turn away wrath. Who acts: Scornful men, wise men. Proverbs 29:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 29:8 · JPS 1917

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Scornful men set a city in a blaze; but wise men turn away wrath.

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**Who acts:** Scornful men, wise men · **What happens:** set, turn away · **To what, where:** city, blaze, wrath

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This is Proverbs 29:8 · 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 (Scornful men, wise men), 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:840
# text = Scornful men set a city in a blaze; but wise men turn away wrath.
1	Scornful	scornful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	blaze	blaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | Scornful men | a city |  | a blaze |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent city=Theme in blaze=Destination |
| 2 | **turn away** | present | wise men | wrath |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrath=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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אַנְשֵׁ֣י לָ֭צוֹן יָפִ֣יחוּ קִרְיָ֑ה וַ֝חֲכָמִ֗ים יָשִׁ֥יבוּ אָֽף׃

[Proverbs 29:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.8/)

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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:840` 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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