Job 15:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
What is man, that he should be clean?
Who acts: man · What happens: be
This is Job 15:14 · 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 (man), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 clean | punct |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 clean | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 clean | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 clean | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 clean | cop |
| 9 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 What | advcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | should | man | clean property | tree rules |
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
מָֽה־אֱנ֥וֹשׁ כִּֽי־יִזְכֶּ֑ה וְכִֽי־יִ֝צְדַּ֗ק יְל֣וּד אִשָּֽׁה׃
Job 15:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- What is man, that he should be clean?
- And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOB:381 of Mova's parse database.
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