Job 33:18 · JPS 1917
That He may keep back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Who acts: man, life · What happens: keep back, perish · To what, where: soul, pit
This is Job 33:18 · 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 (man, life), 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 | That | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 keep | mark |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 keep | advmod |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 soul | nmod:poss |
| 7 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 pit | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pit | det |
| 10 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 life | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 life | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soul | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 perishing | mark |
| 16 | perishing | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 life | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 sword | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sword | det |
| 19 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 perishing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep back | may | man | man's soul and man's life | the pit | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer soul=Beneficiary from pit=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | perish | gerund | man's life not said here | by the sword | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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
יַחְשֹׂ֣ךְ נַ֭פְשׁוֹ מִנִּי־שָׁ֑חַת וְ֝חַיָּת֗וֹ מֵעֲבֹ֥ר בַּשָּֽׁלַח׃
Job 33:18: 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:862 of Mova's parse database.
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