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title: Proverbs 21:13 (JPS 1917) — Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry hi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be answered. Who acts: Whoso, neighbour. Proverbs 21:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 21:13 · JPS 1917

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Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be answered.

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**Who acts:** Whoso, neighbour · **What happens:** stop, cry, not answer · **To what, where:** ears, cry, neighbour

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This is Proverbs 21:13 · 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, neighbour), 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:601
# text = Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be answered.
1	Whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stoppeth	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | Whoso | neighbour's ears |  | the cry of the poor |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality ear=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | shall | neighbour | neighbour |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | shall · passive | neighbour *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V» |

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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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אֹטֵ֣ם אָ֭זְנוֹ מִזַּעֲקַת־דָּ֑ל גַּֽם־ה֥וּא יִ֝קְרָ֗א וְלֹ֣א יֵעָנֶֽה׃

[Proverbs 21:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.13/)

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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:601` 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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