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title: Proverbs 13:13 (JPS 1917) — Whoso despiseth the word shall suffer thereby; but he that feareth t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whoso despiseth the word shall suffer thereby; but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. Who acts: Whoso. Proverbs 13:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 13:13 · JPS 1917

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Whoso despiseth the word shall suffer thereby; but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

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**Who acts:** Whoso · **What happens:** despise, suffer, fear, reward · **To what, where:** word, commandment, Hope

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This is Proverbs 13:13 · 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 (Whoso), 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:362
# text = Whoso despiseth the word shall suffer thereby; but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
1	Whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
2	despiseth	despise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
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:pass	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	feareth	fear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **despise** | present |  | the word |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **suffer** | shall | Whoso |  |  |  |  | thereby *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **fear** | present |  | the commandment |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer commandment=Stimulus |
| 4 | **reward** | shall · passive |  | Hope |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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בָּ֣ז לְ֭דָבָר יֵחָ֣בֶל ל֑וֹ וִירֵ֥א מִ֝צְוָ֗ה ה֣וּא יְשֻׁלָּֽם׃

[Proverbs 13:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.13/)

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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:362` 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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