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title: Proverbs 28:20 (JPS 1917) — A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste… · tree and pragmatics
description: A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be unpunished. Who acts: faithful man, haste, man. Proverbs 28:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 28:20 · JPS 1917

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A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.

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**Who acts:** faithful man, haste, man · **What happens:** abound, make, be, not be · **To what, where:** haste

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This is Proverbs 28:20 · 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 (faithful man, haste, 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:824
# text = A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	abound	abound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	blessings	blessing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	maketh	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	unpunished	unpunished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **abound** | shall | a faithful man |  |  |  |  | with blessings | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blessing=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | haste *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | shall | man |  |  |  |  | unpunished *property* | 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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אִ֣ישׁ אֱ֭מוּנוֹת רַב־בְּרָכ֑וֹת וְאָ֥ץ לְ֝הַעֲשִׁ֗יר לֹ֣א יִנָּקֶֽה׃

[Proverbs 28:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.28.20/)

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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:824` 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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