Job 27:8 · JPS 1917
For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, when God taketh away his soul?
Who acts: hope, heart, God, godless · What happens: be, get, take away, hope · To what, where: gain, tongue, soul
This is Job 27:8 · 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 (hope, heart, God, godless), 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 | For | for | CCONJ | _ | 2 what | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hope | det |
| 5 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 godless | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 godless | det |
| 8 | godless | godless | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hope | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | iobj |
| 14 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taketh | punct |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 taketh | mark |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 taketh | nsubj |
| 18 | taketh | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | advcl |
| 19 | away | away | ADP | _ | 18 taketh | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 soul | nmod:poss |
| 21 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taketh | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=assert, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the hope of the godless | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | present | heart | gain | tongue | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary gain=Theme | |||
| 3 | take away | present | God | heart's soul | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hope | the godless | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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
כִּ֤י מַה־תִּקְוַ֣ת חָ֭נֵף כִּ֣י יִבְצָ֑ע כִּ֤י יֵ֖שֶׁל אֱל֣וֹהַּ נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃
Job 27:8: 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:678 of Mova's parse database.
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