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title: Proverbs 29:23 (JPS 1917) — A man's pride shall bring him low; but he that is of a lowly spirit… · tree and pragmatics
description: A man's pride shall bring him low; but he that is of a lowly spirit shall attain to honour. Who acts: pride, man. Proverbs 29:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 29:23 · JPS 1917

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A man's pride shall bring him low; but he that is of a lowly spirit shall attain to honour.

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**Who acts:** pride, man · **What happens:** bring, be, attain, pride · **To what, where:** man

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This is Proverbs 29:23 · 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 (pride, 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:855
# text = A man's pride shall bring him low; but he that is of a lowly spirit shall attain to honour.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	lowly	lowly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	attain	attain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **bring** | shall | a man's pride |  | man |  |  | low *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of a lowly spirit | tree rules |
| 3 | **attain** | shall | man |  |  |  |  | to honour | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pride** |  | a man |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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גַּאֲוַ֣ת אָ֭דָם תַּשְׁפִּילֶ֑נּוּ וּשְׁפַל־ר֝֗וּחַ יִתְמֹ֥ךְ כָּבֽוֹד׃

[Proverbs 29:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.23/)

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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:855` 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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