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title: Proverbs 22:27 (JPS 1917) — If thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed f… · tree and pragmatics
description: If thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? Who acts: thou, man. Proverbs 22:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 22:27 · JPS 1917

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If thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

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**Who acts:** thou, man · **What happens:** not have, pay, take away · **To what, where:** bed, thee

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This is Proverbs 22:27 · 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 (thou, man), 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:646
# text = If thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	away	away	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obl	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wherewith *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take away** | should | man | thy bed |  | thee |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme from thou=Initial\_Location |

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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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אִם־אֵֽין־לְךָ֥ לְשַׁלֵּ֑ם לָ֥מָּה יִקַּ֥ח מִ֝שְׁכָּבְךָ֗ מִתַּחְתֶּֽיךָ׃

[Proverbs 22:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.27/)

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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:646` 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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