Job 37:19 · JPS 1917
Teach us what we shall say unto Him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
Who acts: you, we, our · What happens: teach, say, not order, speak · To what, where: us, speech · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Job 37:19 · 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 (you, we, our), 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 | Teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Teach | iobj |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Teach | ccomp |
| 7 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 8 Him | case |
| 8 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 say | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 order | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 order | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 order | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 order | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 order | advmod |
| 14 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Teach | advcl |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 speech | nmod:poss |
| 16 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 order | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 reason | case |
| 18 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 order | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 darkness | case |
| 20 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reason | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teach | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | imperative | you not said here | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | shall | we | unto God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not order | can | we | our speech | by reason of darkness | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Theme | |||
| 4 | speak | our | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=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
ה֭וֹדִיעֵנוּמַה־נֹּ֣אמַר ל֑וֹ לֹ֥א־נַ֝עֲרֹ֗ךְ מִפְּנֵי־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃
Job 37:19: 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:992 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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