Job 3:4 · JPS 1917
Let that day be darkness; let not God inquire after it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Who acts: you, day, God, light · What happens: let, be, not let, inquire, shine · To what, where: darkness, light
This is Job 3:4 · 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, day, God, light), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 darkness | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 darkness | cop |
| 5 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 let | advmod |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 let | nsubj |
| 10 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 inquire | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 above | case |
| 14 | above | above | ADV | _ | 10 inquire | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 16 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 light | det |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 let | nsubj |
| 20 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 shine | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | that day | darkness | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not let | infinitive | God | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | infinitive | God not said here | after darkness | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | the light | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | shine | infinitive | the light not said here | light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=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
הַיּ֥וֹם הַה֗וּא יְֽהִ֫י חֹ֥שֶׁךְ אַֽל־יִדְרְשֵׁ֣הוּ אֱל֣וֹהַּ מִמָּ֑עַל וְאַל־תּוֹפַ֖ע עָלָ֣יו נְהָרָֽה׃
Job 3:4: 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:40 of Mova's parse database.
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