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title: Proverbs 21:26 (JPS 1917) — There is that coveteth greedily all the day long; but the righteous… · tree and pragmatics
description: There is that coveteth greedily all the day long; but the righteous giveth and spareth not. Who acts: that, righteous. Proverbs 21:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 21:26 · JPS 1917

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There is that coveteth greedily all the day long; but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

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**Who acts:** that, righteous · **What happens:** be, covet, give, not spare

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This is Proverbs 21:26 · 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 (that, righteous), 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:614
# text = There is that coveteth greedily all the day long; but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
4	coveteth	covet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
5	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	righteous	righteous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	spareth	spare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | that |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **covet** | present |  |  |  |  | day | greedily *property* | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **give** | present | the righteous |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **spare** | present | the righteous *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent |

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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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כָּל־הַ֭יּוֹם הִתְאַוָּ֣ה תַאֲוָ֑ה וְצַדִּ֥יק יִ֝תֵּ֗ן וְלֹ֣א יַחְשֹֽׂךְ׃

[Proverbs 21:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.26/)

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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:614` 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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