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title: Proverbs 3:27 (JPS 1917) — Withhold not good from him to whom it is due, when it is in the powe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Withhold not good from him to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it. Who acts: you, good. Proverbs 3:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 3:27 · JPS 1917

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Withhold not good from him to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.

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**Who acts:** you, good · **What happens:** not withhold, be, do · **To what, where:** good, power

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This is Proverbs 3:27 · 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 (you, good), 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:82
# text = Withhold not good from him to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.
1	Withhold	withhold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	good	good	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	expl	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **withhold** | imperative | you *not said here* | good |  |  |  | from LORD | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | good |  |  |  |  | due *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | the power |  | of thy hand | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | good |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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אַל־תִּמְנַע־ט֥וֹב מִבְּעָלָ֑יו בִּהְי֨וֹת לְאֵ֖ל יָדְךָ֣ לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃

[Proverbs 3:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.27/)

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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:82` 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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