Job 7:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
And why dost Thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity?
Who acts: Thou, my · What happens: not pardon, take away, transgress · To what, where: transgression, iniquity
This is Job 7:21 · 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, my), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pardon | cc |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 pardon | advmod |
| 3 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pardon | aux |
| 4 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 pardon | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 pardon | advmod |
| 6 | pardon | pardon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 transgression | nmod:poss |
| 8 | transgression | transgression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pardon | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pardon | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADP | _ | 11 take | compound:prt |
| 13 | mine | mine | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 iniquity | nmod:poss |
| 14 | iniquity | iniquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 pardon | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pardon | present · do-support | Thou | my transgression | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transgression=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take away | infinitive | Thou not said here | mine iniquity | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | transgress | my | nom transgression «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
וּמֶ֤ה ׀ לֹא־תִשָּׂ֣א פִשְׁעִי֮ וְתַעֲבִ֪יר אֶת־עֲוֺ֫נִ֥י כִּֽי־עַ֭תָּה לֶעָפָ֣ר אֶשְׁכָּ֑ב וְשִׁ֖חֲרְתַּ֣נִי וְאֵינֶֽנִּי׃פ
Job 7:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- And why dost Thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity?
- For now shall I lie down in the dust; and Thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOB:172 of Mova's parse database.
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