Job 8:8 אִיּוֹב

Who acts: I, fathers · What happens: inquire, pray, apply, search out · To what, where: thee, thyself

This is Job 8:8 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — I, fathers — and what happens in the verse to thee, thyself, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 42 chapters of Job on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

כִּֽי־שְׁאַל־נָ֭א לְדֹ֣ר רִישׁ֑וֹן וְ֝כוֹנֵ֗ן לְחֵ֣קֶר אֲבוֹתָֽם׃

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out —

The tree

Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation	gloss
1	כִּֽי־	כִּי	SCONJ	_	2 שְׁאַל־	mark	(dm)
2	שְׁאַל־	שָׁאַל	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=QAL Number=Sing Person=2	root	root	ask
3	נָ֭א	נָא	INTJ	_	2 שְׁאַל־	discourse	please
4	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	5 דֹ֣ר	case	of
5	דֹ֣ר	דּוֹר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 שְׁאַל־	obl	a generation
6	רִישׁ֑וֹן	רִאשׁוֹן	ADJ	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	5 דֹ֣ר	amod	former
7	וְ֝	וְ	CCONJ	_	8 כוֹנֵ֗ן	cc	and
8	כוֹנֵ֗ן	כּוּן	VERB	Gender=Masc HebBinyan=POLEL Number=Sing Person=2	2 שְׁאַל־	conj	give attention
9	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	10 חֵ֣קֶר	case	to
10	חֵ֣קֶר	חֵקֶר	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	8 כוֹנֵ֗ן	obl	the searching
11	אֲבוֹת	אָב	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	10 חֵ֣קֶר	compound:smixut	their ancestors
12	ָֽם	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Masc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 אֲבוֹת	nmod:poss	their
13	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	12 ָֽם	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: no
hedged: yes (נָא)

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
שְׁאַל־ ask	imperative · qal
כוֹנֵן give attention	imperative · polel

MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

The Targum

אֲרוּם שְׁאַל כְּדוּן לְדָר קַדְמַי וְכַוֵין לְפִשְׁפּוּשׁ אֲבָהָתְהוֹן:

The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

English, JPS 1917

Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out —

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. Tree, glosses and frames: MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, CC BY 4.0; converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). Speech act: Mova's rules on the MACULA words (macula prag). Targum: Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

English: JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence wlc:JOB:167.

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