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title: Proverbs 30:8 (JPS 1917) — Remove far from me falsehood and lies; give me neither poverty nor r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Remove far from me falsehood and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with mine allotted bread; Who acts: you. Proverbs 30:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 30:8 · JPS 1917

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Remove far from me falsehood and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with mine allotted bread;

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** remove, give, feed, allot · **To what, where:** falsehood, poverty, me

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This is Proverbs 30:8 · 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), 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:872
# text = Remove far from me falsehood and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with mine allotted bread;
1	Remove	remove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc:preconj	_	_
12	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
14	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	allotted	allot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **remove** | imperative | you *not said here* | falsehood and lies |  |  |  | from me; far *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent falsehood=Theme from i=Source |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | poverty nor riches | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient poverty=Theme |
| 3 | **feed** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  | mine allotted bread *obl* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **allot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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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שָׁ֤וְא ׀ וּֽדְבַר־כָּזָ֡ב הַרְחֵ֬ק מִמֶּ֗נִּי רֵ֣אשׁ וָ֭עֹשֶׁר אַל־תִּֽתֶּן־לִ֑י הַ֝טְרִיפֵ֗נִי לֶ֣חֶם חֻקִּֽי׃

[Proverbs 30:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.8/)

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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:872` 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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