--- title: Proverbs 11:16 (JPS 1917) — A gracious woman obtaineth honour; and strong men obtain riches. · tree and pragmatics description: A gracious woman obtaineth honour; and strong men obtain riches. Who acts: gracious woman, strong men. Proverbs 11:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.306/) [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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/11/) / [11:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.16/) / JPS 1 # Proverbs 11:16 · JPS 1917 A gracious woman obtaineth honour; and strong men obtain riches. **Who acts:** gracious woman, strong men · **What happens:** obtain · **To what, where:** honour, riches This is Proverbs 11:16 · 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 (gracious woman, strong men), 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:306 # text = A gracious woman obtaineth honour; and strong men obtain riches. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 gracious gracious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 obtaineth obtain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 obtain obtain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 riches rich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **obtain** | present | a gracious woman | honour | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Theme | | 2 | **obtain** | present | strong men | riches | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Theme | 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} אֵֽשֶׁת־חֵ֭ן תִּתְמֹ֣ךְ כָּב֑וֹד וְ֝עָרִיצִ֗ים יִתְמְכוּ־עֹֽשֶׁר׃ [Proverbs 11:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.16/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:306` 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. - ← previous: [Proverbs 11:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.305/) - next →: [Proverbs 11:17 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.307/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 11:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.16/)