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title: Proverbs 24:12 (JPS 1917) — And shall not He render to every man according to his works? · tree and pragmatics
description: And shall not He render to every man according to his works? Who acts: safety. Proverbs 24:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 24:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3

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And shall not He render to every man according to his works?

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**Who acts:** safety · **What happens:** not render, accord, work · **To what, where:** man

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This is Proverbs 24:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 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 (safety), 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:698
# text = And shall not He render to every man according to his works?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1, act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **render** | shall | safety |  | every man |  |  | accord safety's works | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** |  | safety |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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־תֹאמַ֗ר הֵן֮ לֹא־יָדַ֪עְנ֫וּ זֶ֥ה הֲ‍ֽלֹא־תֹ֘כֵ֤ן לִבּ֨וֹת ׀ הֽוּא־יָבִ֗ין וְנֹצֵ֣ר נַ֭פְשְׁךָ ה֣וּא יֵדָ֑ע וְהֵשִׁ֖יב לְאָדָ֣ם כְּפָעֳלֽוֹ׃

[Proverbs 24:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [If thou sayest: 'Behold, we knew not this', doth not He that weigheth the hearts consider it?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.696/)
2. [And He that keepeth thy soul, doth not He know it?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.697/)
3. **And shall not He render to every man according to his works?**

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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:698` 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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