Job 8:8 · JPS 1917

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out —

Who acts: I, fathers · What happens: inquire, pray, apply, search out · To what, where: thee, thyself

This is Job 8:8 · 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 (I, fathers), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	2 inquire	mark
2	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pray	csubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 inquire	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 pray	nsubj
5	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 pray	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 generation	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 generation	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 generation	det
10	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 generation	amod
11	generation	generation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pray	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 apply	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 apply	cc
14	apply	apply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 pray	conj
15	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	14 apply	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 apply	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 searched	obj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fathers	nmod:poss
20	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 searched	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 searched	aux
22	searched	search	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 that	acl:relcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 searched	compound:prt
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	5 pray	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	infinitive					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pray	present	I	thee	of the former generation		tree rules
3	apply	present	I not said here	thyself		to that	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thyself=Theme
4	search out	present · perfect	children's fathers				vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Location

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

כִּֽי־שְׁאַל־נָ֭א לְדֹ֣ר רִישׁ֑וֹן וְ֝כוֹנֵ֗ן לְחֵ֣קֶר אֲבוֹתָֽם׃

Job 8:8: 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:182 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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