Job 21:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?
Who acts: Almighty, we · What happens: be, serve · To what, where: God
This is Job 21:15 · 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 (Almighty, we), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Almighty | det |
| 4 | Almighty | Almighty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 serve | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 serve | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 serve | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 serve | aux |
| 9 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 What | advcl |
| 10 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 serve | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Almighty | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | serve | should | we | God | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
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
מַה־שַׁדַּ֥י כִּֽי־נַֽעַבְדֶ֑נּוּ וּמַה־נּ֝וֹעִ֗יל כִּ֣י נִפְגַּע־בּֽוֹ׃
Job 21:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?
- And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?' —
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOB:542 of Mova's parse database.
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