Job 7:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
If I have sinned, what do I unto Thee, O Thou watcher of men?
Who acts: I · What happens: sin, do
This is Job 7:20 · 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 (I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 sinned | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sinned | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sinned | aux |
| 4 | sinned | sin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 do | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sinned | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 9 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 10 Thee | case |
| 10 | Thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 do | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 watcher | punct |
| 12 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 14 watcher | discourse |
| 13 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 watcher | nmod |
| 14 | watcher | watcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | vocative |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 men | case |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 watcher | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sin a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | I | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | present | I | unto Thee; watcher Thou of men vocative | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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
חָטָ֡אתִי מָ֤ה אֶפְעַ֨ל ׀ לָךְ֮ נֹצֵ֪ר הָאָ֫דָ֥ם לָ֤מָה שַׂמְתַּ֣נִי לְמִפְגָּ֣ע לָ֑ךְ וָאֶהְיֶ֖ה עָלַ֣י לְמַשָּֽׂא׃
Job 7:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- If I have sinned, what do I unto Thee, O Thou watcher of men?
- Why hast Thou set me as a mark for Thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOB:170 of Mova's parse database.
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