Job 31:23 · JPS 1917
For calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of His majesty I could do nothing.
Who acts: calamity, I · What happens: be, do · To what, where: terror, me, nothing
This is Job 31:23 · 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 (calamity, I), 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 | ADP | _ | 2 calamity | case |
| 2 | calamity | calamity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 terror | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 God | case |
| 4 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 calamity | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 terror | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 terror | det |
| 7 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 terror | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 reason | case |
| 13 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 majesty | case |
| 15 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reason | nmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 terror | conj |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 terror | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | calamity from God | a terror | me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | could | I | nothing | by reason of God's majesty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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 פַ֣חַד אֵ֭לַי אֵ֣יד אֵ֑ל וּ֝מִשְּׂאֵת֗וֹ לֹ֣א אוּכָֽל׃
Job 31:23: 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:804 of Mova's parse database.
The tree and the speech act come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.
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