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title: Proverbs 19:17 (JPS 1917) — He that is gracious unto the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and his goo… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that is gracious unto the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and his good deed will He repay unto him. Who acts: soul. Proverbs 19:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 19:17 · JPS 1917

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He that is gracious unto the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and his good deed will He repay unto him.

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**Who acts:** soul · **What happens:** be, lend, repay · **To what, where:** good deed

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This is Proverbs 19:17 · 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 (soul), 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:546
# text = He that is gracious unto the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and his good deed will He repay unto him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	poor	poor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	lendeth	lend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	repay	repay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | unto the poor; gracious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lend** | present | soul |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **repay** | future | soul | soul's good deed |  |  |  | unto poor | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent deed=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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מַלְוֵ֣ה יְ֭הוָה ח֣וֹנֵֽן דָּ֑ל וּ֝גְמֻל֗וֹ יְשַׁלֶּם־לֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 19:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.17/)

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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:546` 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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