Job 8:9 אִיּוֹב

Who acts: we, days · What happens: be, know · To what, where: nothing, shadow

This is Job 8:9 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 — we, days — and what happens in the verse to nothing, shadow, 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־תְמ֣וֹל אֲ֭נַחְנוּ וְלֹ֣א נֵדָ֑ע כִּ֤י צֵ֖ל יָמֵ֣ינוּ עֲלֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow —

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 תְמ֣וֹל	mark	(dm)
2	תְמ֣וֹל	תְּמוֹל	ADV	_	root	root	[are] yesterday
3	אֲ֭נַחְנוּ	אֲנַחְנוּ	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 תְמ֣וֹל	nsubj	we
4	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	6 נֵדָ֑ע	cc	and
5	לֹ֣א	לֹא	ADV	_	6 נֵדָ֑ע	advmod	not
6	נֵדָ֑ע	יָדַע	VERB	Gender=Com HebBinyan=QAL Number=Plur Person=1	2 תְמ֣וֹל	conj	we know
7	כִּ֤י	כִּי	SCONJ	_	8 צֵ֖ל	mark	(dm)
8	צֵ֖ל	צֵל	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Sing	2 תְמ֣וֹל	advcl	[are] a shadow
9	יָמֵ֣י	יוֹם	NOUN	Gender=Masc Number=Plur	8 צֵ֖ל	nsubj	days
10	נוּ	הוּא	PRON	Gender=Com Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 יָמֵ֣י	nmod:poss	our
11	עֲלֵי־	עַל	ADP	_	12 אָֽרֶץ	case	on
12	אָֽרֶץ	אֶרֶץ	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 צֵ֖ל	obl	earth
13	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	12 אָֽרֶץ	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
speech: inside a quote begun earlier
negation: yes

verb	form · stem	who (A0)	what, whom (A1)	to whom, further (A2)	who makes it happen (AA)
not נֵדָע we know	yiqtol · qal

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 מְאִתְמְלֵי אֲנַחְנָא וְלָא נֵדַע אֲרוּם הֵיךְ טוּלָא יוֹמָנָא עֲלַוֵי אַרְעָא:

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 we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow —

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:168.

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