Job 22:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Can a man be profitable unto God?
Who acts: man · What happens: be
This is Job 22:2 · 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 profitable | aux |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 profitable | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 profitable | cop |
| 5 | profitable | profitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 7 God | case |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 profitable | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 profitable | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | a man | unto God; profitable 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
הַלְאֵ֥ל יִסְכָּן־גָּ֑בֶר כִּֽי־יִסְכֹּ֖ן עָלֵ֣ימוֹ מַשְׂכִּֽיל׃
Job 22:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Can a man be profitable unto God?
- Or can he that is wise be profitable unto Him?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOB:567 of Mova's parse database.
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