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title: Proverbs 16:18 says «Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit… — Psalms and Proverbs · tree and pragmatics
description: Proverbs 16:18 says «Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall». Who acts: Proverbs, Pride. A sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms and Proverbs, sentence 16

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Proverbs 16:18 says «Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall».

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**Who acts:** Proverbs, Pride · **What happens:** say, go · **To what, where:** destruction · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Proverbs, Pride), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson:16
# text = Proverbs 16:18 says «Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Proverbs	Proverbs	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	16:18	16:18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
5	Pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
15	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Proverbs |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present | Pride |  |  | destruction and a haughty spirit  a fall |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before destruction=Location |

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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.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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