---
title: Proverbs 29:13 (JPS 1917) — The poor man and the oppressor meet together; the LORD giveth light… · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor man and the oppressor meet together; the LORD giveth light to the eyes of them both. Who acts: poor man, LORD. Proverbs 29:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.845/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Proverbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/) / [chapter 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO/29/) / [29:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.13/) / JPS 1

# Proverbs 29:13 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The poor man and the oppressor meet together; the LORD giveth light to the eyes of them both.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** poor man, LORD · **What happens:** meet, give · **To what, where:** light, eyes

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Proverbs 29:13 · 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 (poor man, LORD), 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:845
# text = The poor man and the oppressor meet together; the LORD giveth light to the eyes of them both.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	oppressor	oppressor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | the poor man and the oppressor |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present | the LORD | light | the eyes of eyes |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent light=Theme to eye=Recipient |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
רָ֤שׁ וְאִ֣ישׁ תְּכָכִ֣ים נִפְגָּ֑שׁוּ מֵ֤אִיר־עֵינֵ֖י שְׁנֵיהֶ֣ם יְהוָֽה׃

[Proverbs 29:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.13/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:845` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Proverbs 29:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.844/)
- next →: [Proverbs 29:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.846/)
- ↑ back to [Proverbs 29:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.13/)