Job 2:8 · JPS 1917
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
Who acts: Satan · What happens: take, scrape, sit · To what, where: potsherd, Job, Satan, ashes
This is Job 2:8 · 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 (Satan), 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 | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 potsherd | det |
| 6 | potsherd | potsherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 scrape | mark |
| 8 | scrape | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | advcl |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 scrape | obj |
| 10 | therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 8 scrape | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sat | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sat | nsubj |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 ashes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ashes | det |
| 17 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sat | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Satan | a potsherd | Job | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme potsherd=Destination | |||
| 2 | scrape | to-infinitive | Satan not said here | Satan | therewith property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 3 | sit | past | Satan | the ashes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among ash=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
וַיִּֽקַּֽח־ל֣וֹ חֶ֔רֶשׂ לְהִתְגָּרֵ֖ד בּ֑וֹ וְה֖וּא יֹשֵׁ֥ב בְּתוֹךְ־הָאֵֽפֶר׃
Job 2:8: 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:30 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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