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title: Proverbs 28:19 (JPS 1917) — He that tilleth his ground shall have plenty of bread; but he that f… · tree and pragmatics
description: He that tilleth his ground shall have plenty of bread; but he that followeth after vain things shall have poverty enough. Who acts: man. Proverbs 28:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 28:19 · JPS 1917

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He that tilleth his ground shall have plenty of bread; but he that followeth after vain things shall have poverty enough.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** till, have, follow · **To what, where:** ground, plenty, poverty

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This is Proverbs 28:19 · 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 (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:823
# text = He that tilleth his ground shall have plenty of bread; but he that followeth after vain things shall have poverty enough.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tilleth	till	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	followeth	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
21	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **till** | present |  | man's ground |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | shall | man | plenty of bread |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 3 | **follow** | present |  |  |  |  | after vain things |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after thing=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | shall | man | poverty |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poverty=Patient |

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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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עֹבֵ֣ד אַ֭דְמָתוֹ יִֽשְׂבַּֽע־לָ֑חֶם וּמְרַדֵּ֥ף רֵ֝קִ֗ים יִֽשְׂבַּֽע־רִֽישׁ׃

[Proverbs 28:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.19/)

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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:823` 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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