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title: Proverbs 27:13 (JPS 1917) — Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and hold him in pled… · tree and pragmatics
description: Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and hold him in pledge that is surety for an alien woman. Who acts: you, garment. Proverbs 27:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 27:13 · JPS 1917

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Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and hold him in pledge that is surety for an alien woman.

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**Who acts:** you, garment · **What happens:** take, be, hold · **To what, where:** garment, surety, friend, pledge

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This is Proverbs 27:13 · 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 (you, garment), 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:790
# text = Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and hold him in pledge that is surety for an alien woman.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	pledge	pledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	alien	alien	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | friend's garment |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | friend's garment | surety |  |  |  | for a stranger | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive | you *not said here* | friend |  | pledge |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in pledge=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | surety |  |  |  | for a alien woman | tree rules |

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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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קַח־בִּ֭גְדוֹ כִּי־עָ֣רַב זָ֑ר וּבְעַ֖ד נָכְרִיָּ֣ה חַבְלֵֽהוּ׃

[Proverbs 27:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.13/)

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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:790` 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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