--- title: Proverbs 13:21 (JPS 1917) — Evil pursueth sinners; but to the righteous good shall be repaid. · tree and pragmatics description: Evil pursueth sinners; but to the righteous good shall be repaid. Who acts: Evil. Proverbs 13:21 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.370/) [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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/13/) / [13:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.21/) / JPS 1 # Proverbs 13:21 · JPS 1917 Evil pursueth sinners; but to the righteous good shall be repaid. **Who acts:** Evil · **What happens:** pursue, repay · **To what, where:** sinners This is Proverbs 13:21 · 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 (Evil), 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:370 # text = Evil pursueth sinners; but to the righteous good shall be repaid. 1 Evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pursueth pursue VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 sinners sinner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 righteous righteous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 good good NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 10 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 repaid repay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pursue** | present | Evil | sinners | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sinner=Theme | | 2 | **repay** | shall · passive | Evil *not said here* | | | | | to the righteous good | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient» | 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} חַ֭טָּאִים תְּרַדֵּ֣ף רָעָ֑ה וְאֶת־צַ֝דִּיקִ֗ים יְשַׁלֶּם־טֽוֹב׃ [Proverbs 13:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.21/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:370` 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 13:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.369/) - next →: [Proverbs 13:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.371/) - ↑ back to [Proverbs 13:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.21/)