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title: Proverbs 22:23 (JPS 1917) — For the LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that despoil them. Who acts: LORD, words. Proverbs 22:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 22:23 · JPS 1917

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For the LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that despoil them.

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**Who acts:** LORD, words · **What happens:** plead, despoil, cause · **To what, where:** cause, those, words

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This is Proverbs 22:23 · 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 (LORD, words), 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:642
# text = For the LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that despoil them.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	plead	plead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	despoil	despoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	despoil	despoil	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **plead** *speech: request* | future | the LORD | words's cause |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **despoil** | infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | those |  |  |  | of life | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Source of life=Theme |
| 3 | **despoil** | present |  | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 4 | **cause** |  | words *= word* |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=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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כִּֽי־יְ֭הוָה יָרִ֣יב רִיבָ֑ם וְקָבַ֖ע אֶת־קֹבְעֵיהֶ֣ם נָֽפֶשׁ׃

[Proverbs 22:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.23/)

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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:642` 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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