Job 37:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2
Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
Who acts: man · What happens: wish, swallow up · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Job 37:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (man), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 wish | cc |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 swallowed | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 9 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wish | ccomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | should | a man | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swallow up | past · passive | man | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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
הַֽיְסֻפַּר־ל֭וֹכִּ֣י אֲדַבֵּ֑ר אִֽם־אָ֥מַר אִ֝֗ישׁ כִּ֣י יְבֻלָּֽע׃
Job 37:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Shall it be told Him that I would speak?
- Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:JOB:994 of Mova's parse database.
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