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title: Proverbs 30:22 (JPS 1917) — For a servant when he reigneth; and a churl when he is filled with f… · tree and pragmatics
description: For a servant when he reigneth; and a churl when he is filled with food; Who acts: horseleech. Proverbs 30:22 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 30:22 · JPS 1917

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For a servant when he reigneth; and a churl when he is filled with food;

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**Who acts:** horseleech · **What happens:** reign, fill · **To what, where:** horseleech

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This is Proverbs 30:22 · 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 (horseleech), 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:886
# text = For a servant when he reigneth; and a churl when he is filled with food;
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reigneth	reign	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	churl	churl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	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 | **reign** | present | horseleech |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fill** | present · passive |  | horseleech |  |  |  | with food | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with food=Instrument |

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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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תַּֽחַת־עֶ֭בֶד כִּ֣י יִמְל֑וֹךְ וְ֝נָבָ֗ל כִּ֣י יִֽשְׂבַּֽע־לָֽחֶם׃

[Proverbs 30:22: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.22/)

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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:886` 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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