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title: Proverbs 27:18 (JPS 1917) — Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. Who acts: Whoso. Proverbs 27:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 27:18 · JPS 1917

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Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

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**Who acts:** Whoso · **What happens:** keep, eat, wait, honour · **To what, where:** fig tree, fruit, master, friend

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This is Proverbs 27:18 · 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 (Whoso), 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:795
# text = Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
1	Whoso	whoso	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	keepeth	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	fig	fig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	waiteth	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	honoured	honour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **keep** | present |  | the fig tree |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | shall | Whoso | the fruit |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 3 | **wait** | present |  |  |  | friend's master |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on master=Location |
| 4 | **honour** | shall · passive |  | friend |  |  |  |  | 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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נֹצֵ֣ר תְּ֭אֵנָה יֹאכַ֣ל פִּרְיָ֑הּ וְשֹׁמֵ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣יו יְכֻבָּֽד׃

[Proverbs 27:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.27.18/)

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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:795` 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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