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title: Proverbs 13:11 (JPS 1917) — Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathereth l… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathereth little by little shall increase. Who acts: lamp. Proverbs 13:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 13:11 · JPS 1917

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Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathereth little by little shall increase.

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**Who acts:** lamp · **What happens:** get, diminish, gather, increase · **To what, where:** Wealth, little

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This is Proverbs 13:11 · 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 (lamp), 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:360
# text = Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathereth little by little shall increase.
1	Wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	gotten	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	diminished	diminish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
12	gathereth	gather	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	little	little	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **get** | participle |  | Wealth *not said here* |  |  |  | by vanity | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **diminish** | shall · passive |  | Wealth |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **gather** | present |  | little |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme |
| 4 | **increase** | shall | lamp |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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ה֭וֹן מֵהֶ֣בֶל יִמְעָ֑ט וְקֹבֵ֖ץ עַל־יָ֣ד יַרְבֶּֽה׃

[Proverbs 13:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.11/)

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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:360` 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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