Job 34:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Is it fit to say to a king: 'Thou art base'?
Who acts: Thou · What happens: be, say · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Job 34:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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: who acts (Thou), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fit | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fit | expl |
| 3 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fit | csubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 base | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 base | punct |
| 11 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 base | nsubj |
| 12 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 base | cop |
| 13 | base | base | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 say | ccomp |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 base | punct |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fit | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed form=q, act=ask
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fit property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | a king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Thou | base property | tree rules |
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
הַאֲמֹ֣ר לְמֶ֣לֶךְ בְּלִיָּ֑עַל רָ֝שָׁ֗ע אֶל־נְדִיבִֽים׃
Job 34:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Is it fit to say to a king: 'Thou art base'?
- Or to nobles: 'Ye are wicked'? —
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOB:897 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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