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title: Proverbs 13:4 (JPS 1917) — The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; but the soul of… · tree and pragmatics
description: The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be abundantly gratified. Who acts: soul. Proverbs 13:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 13:4 · JPS 1917

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The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be abundantly gratified.

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**Who acts:** soul · **What happens:** desire, have, gratify · **To what, where:** nothing, soul

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This is Proverbs 13:4 · 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 (soul), 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:353
# text = The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be abundantly gratified.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sluggard	sluggard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	desireth	desire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	diligent	diligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	gratified	gratify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **desire** | present | the soul of the sluggard |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **have** | present | the soul of the sluggard *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **gratify** | shall · passive |  | the soul of the diligent |  |  |  | abundantly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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מִתְאַוָּ֣ה וָ֭אַיִן נַפְשׁ֣וֹ עָצֵ֑ל וְנֶ֖פֶשׁ חָרֻצִ֣ים תְּדֻשָּֽׁן׃

[Proverbs 13:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.4/)

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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:353` 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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