---
title: Proverbs 29:19 (JPS 1917) — A servant will not be corrected by words; for though he understand,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A servant will not be corrected by words; for though he understand, there will be no response. Who acts: words, vision, response. Proverbs 29:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.851/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Proverbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/) / [chapter 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/29/) / [29:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.19/) / JPS 1

# Proverbs 29:19 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A servant will not be corrected by words; for though he understand, there will be no response.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** words, vision, response · **What happens:** not correct, understand, be · **To what, where:** servant

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Proverbs 29:19 · 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 (words, vision, response), 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:851
# text = A servant will not be corrected by words; for though he understand, there will be no response.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	corrected	correct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	for	for	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	understand	understand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **correct** *speech: disagree* | future · passive | words | a servant |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **understand** | present | vision |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **be** | future | no response |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
בִּ֭דְבָרִים לֹא־יִוָּ֣סֶר עָ֑בֶד כִּֽי־יָ֝בִ֗ין וְאֵ֣ין מַעֲנֶֽה׃

[Proverbs 29:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.19/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:851` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Proverbs 29:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.850/)
- next →: [Proverbs 29:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.852/)
- ↑ back to [Proverbs 29:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.19/)