Job 38:34 · JPS 1917
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
Who acts: thou, abundance · What happens: lift up, cover · To what, where: voice, clouds, thee
This is Job 38:34 · 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, abundance), 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 | Canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 3 lift | aux |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 lift | nsubj |
| 3 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 lift | compound:prt |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 voice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lift | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 clouds | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clouds | det |
| 9 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lift | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cover | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 cover | mark |
| 12 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cover | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 waters | case |
| 14 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 abundance | nmod |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 cover | aux |
| 16 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lift | advcl |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 cover | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 lift | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | can | thou | thy voice | the clouds | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme to cloud=Destination | |||
| 2 | cover | may | abundance of waters | thee | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Destination |
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
הֲתָרִ֣ים לָעָ֣ב קוֹלֶ֑ךָ וְֽשִׁפְעַת־מַ֥יִם תְּכַסֶּֽךָּ׃
Job 38:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOB:1042 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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