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title: Proverbs 28:13: "Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but t… — Trust that breaks and takes long to mend · tree and pragmatics
description: Proverbs 28:13: "Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy." Who acts: Whoever, one, Proverbs. A sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 14

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Proverbs 28:13: "Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy."

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**Who acts:** Whoever, one, Proverbs · **What happens:** conceal, not prosper, confess, renounce, find · **To what, where:** sins, Proverbs, mercy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» 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 (Whoever, one, Proverbs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:14
# text = Proverbs 28:13: "Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy."
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.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): no change
1	Proverbs	proverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
2	28:13	28:13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	conceals	conceal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	prosper	prosper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	confesses	confess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	renounces	renounce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	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 | **conceal** *in a quote* | present | Whoever | Proverbs's sins |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **prosper** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Whoever *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **confess** *in a quote* | present | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **renounce** *in a quote* | present | the one *not said here* | Proverbs *= proverb* |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 5 | **find** *in a quote* | present | Proverbs  28:13 | mercy |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Topic |

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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): no change. **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.

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