Job 12:7 · JPS 1917
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee;
Who acts: you, beasts · What happens: ask, teach, tell · To what, where: beasts, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Job 12:7 · 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 (you, beasts), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 ask | cc |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | _ | 2 ask | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beasts | det |
| 5 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ask | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 teach | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 teach | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 teach | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 teach | aux |
| 10 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ask | conj |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 teach | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 fowls | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fowls | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fowls | det |
| 15 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ask | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fowls | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tell | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 tell | aux |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fowls | conj |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 tell | iobj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the beasts | now | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beast=Recipient | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other | shall | beasts = beast | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | shall | beasts = beast | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
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
וְֽאוּלָ֗ם שְׁאַל־נָ֣א בְהֵמ֣וֹת וְתֹרֶ֑ךָּ וְע֥וֹף הַ֝שָּׁמַ֗יִם וְיַגֶּד־לָֽךְ׃
Job 12:7: 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:289 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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