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title: Psalms 49:17 (JPS 1917) — Be not thou afraid when one waxeth rich, when the wealth of his hous… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be not thou afraid when one waxeth rich, when the wealth of his house is increased; Who acts: thou, one. Psalms 49:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 49:17 · JPS 1917

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Be not thou afraid when one waxeth rich, when the wealth of his house is increased;

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**Who acts:** thou, one · **What happens:** not be, wax, increase · **To what, where:** wealth

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This is Psalms 49:17 · 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 (thou, one), 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:PSA:812
# text = Be not thou afraid when one waxeth rich, when the wealth of his house is increased;
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
6	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
7	waxeth	wax	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wax** | present | one |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **increase** | present · passive |  | the wealth of God's house |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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אַל־תִּ֭ירָא כִּֽי־יַעֲשִׁ֣ר אִ֑ישׁ כִּֽי־יִ֝רְבֶּה כְּב֣וֹד בֵּיתֽוֹ׃

[Psalms 49:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.49.17/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:812` 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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