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title: Proverbs 22:16 (JPS 1917) — One may oppress the poor, yet will their gain increase; one may give… · tree and pragmatics
description: One may oppress the poor, yet will their gain increase; one may give to the rich, yet will want come. Who acts: One, gain. Proverbs 22:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 22:16 · JPS 1917

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One may oppress the poor, yet will their gain increase; one may give to the rich, yet will want come.

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**Who acts:** One, gain · **What happens:** oppress, increase, give, want, come · **To what, where:** poor, rich

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This is Proverbs 22:16 · 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 (One, gain), 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:635
# text = One may oppress the poor, yet will their gain increase; one may give to the rich, yet will want come.
1	One	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	oppress	oppress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	gain	gain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oppress** | may | One | the poor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **increase** | future | women's gain |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | may | one |  | the rich |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to rich=Recipient |
| 4 | **want** | future | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **come** *not said to happen* | infinitive | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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עֹ֣שֵֽׁק דָּ֭ל לְהַרְבּ֣וֹת ל֑וֹ נֹתֵ֥ן לְ֝עָשִׁ֗יר אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃

[Proverbs 22:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.16/)

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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:635` 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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