Job 4:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
But who can withhold himself from speaking?
What happens: withhold, speak · To what, where: Eliphaz · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Job 4:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 withhold | cc |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 withhold | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 withhold | aux |
| 4 | withhold | withhold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 withhold | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 speaking | mark |
| 7 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 withhold | advcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 withhold | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, indirect=1, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withhold | can | Eliphaz | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
הֲנִסָּ֬ה דָבָ֣ר אֵלֶ֣יךָ תִּלְאֶ֑ה וַעְצֹ֥ר בְּ֝מִלִּ֗ין מִ֣י יוּכָֽל׃
Job 4:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary?
- But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOB:67 of Mova's parse database.
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