---
title: Proverbs 14:23 (JPS 1917) — In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only… · tree and pragmatics
description: In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. Who acts: profit, talk, lips. Proverbs 14:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.398/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/14/) / [14:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.23/) / JPS 1

# Proverbs 14:23 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** profit, talk, lips · **What happens:** be, tend, talk · **To what, where:** labour

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Proverbs 14:23 · 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 (profit, talk, lips), 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:398
# text = In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	_	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	tendeth	tend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	penury	penury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | profit |  |  | all labour; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in labour=Location |
| 2 | **tend** | present | the talk of the lips |  |  |  |  | to penury | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to penury=Theme |
| 3 | **talk** |  | the lips |  |  |  |  |  | nom talk «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
בְּכָל־עֶ֭צֶב יִהְיֶ֣ה מוֹתָ֑ר וּדְבַר־שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃

[Proverbs 14:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.23/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:398` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Proverbs 14:22 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.397/)
- next →: [Proverbs 14:24 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.399/)
- ↑ back to [Proverbs 14:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.14.23/)