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title: Proverbs 29:9 (JPS 1917) — If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he be angry or… · tree and pragmatics
description: If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest. Who acts: wise man, man, rest. Proverbs 29:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 29:9 · JPS 1917

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If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.

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**Who acts:** wise man, man, rest · **What happens:** contend, be, laugh

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This is Proverbs 29:9 · 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 (wise man, man, rest), 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:841
# text = If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	contendeth	contend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **contend** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a wise man |  |  |  |  | with a foolish man | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | man |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **laugh** | present | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **be** | future | no rest |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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אִֽישׁ־חָכָ֗ם נִ֭שְׁפָּט אֶת־אִ֣ישׁ אֱוִ֑יל וְרָגַ֥ז וְ֝שָׂחַ֗ק וְאֵ֣ין נָֽחַת׃

[Proverbs 29:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.9/)

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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:841` 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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