Job 38:33 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens?
Who acts: thou · What happens: know, ordain · To what, where: ordinances, heavens
This is Job 38:33 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Knowest | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ordinances | det |
| 4 | ordinances | ordinance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Knowest | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 heavens | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heavens | det |
| 7 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ordinances | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knowest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | thou | the ordinances of the heavens | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ordinance=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ordain | the heavens | nom ordinance «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
הֲ֭יָדַעְתָּ חֻקּ֣וֹת שָׁמָ֑יִם אִם־תָּשִׂ֖ים מִשְׁטָר֣וֹ בָאָֽרֶץ׃
Job 38:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens?
- Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOB:1040 of Mova's parse database.
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