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title: Proverbs 17:13 (JPS 1917) — Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. · tree and pragmatics
description: Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. Who acts: Whoso, evil. Proverbs 17:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 17:13 · JPS 1917

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Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

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**Who acts:** Whoso, evil · **What happens:** reward, not depart · **To what, where:** evil, house

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This is Proverbs 17:13 · 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, 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:489
# text = Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
1	Whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rewardeth	reward	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	csubj	_	_
3	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: none
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reward** | present | Whoso | evil |  |  |  | for good | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent evil=Theme for good=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **depart** | shall | evil |  |  | evil's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial\_Location |

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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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מֵשִׁ֣יב רָ֭עָה תַּ֣חַת טוֹבָ֑ה לֹא־תָמ֥וּשׁ רָ֝עָ֗ה מִבֵּיתֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 17:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.13/)

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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:489` 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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