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title: Proverbs 29:18 (JPS 1917) — Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but he that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. Who acts: people, vision. Proverbs 29:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 29:18 · JPS 1917

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Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

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**Who acts:** people, vision · **What happens:** cast off, keep, be · **To what, where:** restraint, law

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This is Proverbs 29:18 · 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 (people, vision), 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:850
# text = Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cast	cast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	restraint	restraint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	dislocated	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	keepeth	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **cast off** | present | the people | restraint |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent restraint=Product |
| 2 | **keep** | present |  | the law |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | vision |  |  |  |  | vision *dislocated*; happy *property* | tree rules |

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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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בְּאֵ֣ין חָ֭זוֹן יִפָּ֣רַֽע עָ֑ם וְשֹׁמֵ֖ר תּוֹרָ֣ה אַשְׁרֵֽהוּ׃

[Proverbs 29:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.18/)

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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:850` 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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