Job 4:16 · JPS 1917

It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; a form was before mine eyes; I heard a still voice:

Who acts: spirit, I · What happens: stand, not discern, be, hear · To what, where: appearance, still voice

This is Job 4:16 · 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 (spirit, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 discern	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 discern	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 discern	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 discern	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 discern	advmod
9	discern	discern	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stood	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 appearance	det
11	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 discern	obj
12	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	9 discern	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 eyes	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 form	det
15	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	parataxis
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 eyes	cop
17	before	before	ADP	_	19 eyes	case
18	mine	mine	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eyes	nmod:poss
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 form	root
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 voice	det
24	still	still	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 voice	amod
25	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	spirit		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not discern	could	I	the appearance		thereof property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer appearance=Stimulus
3	is	past			before mine eyes		tree rules
4	hear	past	I	a still voice			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

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

יַעֲמֹ֤ד ׀ וְֽלֹא־אַכִּ֬יר מַרְאֵ֗הוּ תְּ֭מוּנָה לְנֶ֣גֶד עֵינָ֑י דְּמָמָ֖ה וָק֣וֹל אֶשְׁמָֽע׃

Job 4:16: 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:82 of Mova's parse database.

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