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title: Proverbs 22:8 (JPS 1917) — He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity; and the rod of his wrath… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity; and the rod of his wrath shall fail. Who acts: poor, rod. Proverbs 22:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 22:8 · JPS 1917

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He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity; and the rod of his wrath shall fail.

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**Who acts:** poor, rod · **What happens:** sow, reap, fail · **To what, where:** iniquity, vanity

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This is Proverbs 22:8 · 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 (poor, rod), 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:627
# text = He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity; and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	soweth	sow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	reap	reap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **sow** | present |  | iniquity |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme |
| 2 | **reap** | shall | poor | vanity |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vanity=Theme |
| 3 | **fail** | shall | the rod of poor's wrath |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: 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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זוֹרֵ֣עַ עַ֭וְלָה יִקְצָר־אָ֑וֶן וְשֵׁ֖בֶט עֶבְרָת֣וֹ יִכְלֶֽה׃

[Proverbs 22:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.8/)

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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:627` 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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