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title: Job 36:11 — If they hearken and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prospe… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: If they hearken and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. Who acts: eyes. Job 36:11 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 36:11 אִיּוֹב

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** hearken, serve, spend · **To what, where:** God, prosperity

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This is Job 36:11 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — eyes — and what happens in the verse to God, prosperity, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 42 chapters of Job on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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אִֽם־יִשְׁמְע֗וּ וְֽיַ֫עֲבֹ֥דוּ יְכַלּ֣וּ יְמֵיהֶ֣ם בַּטּ֑וֹב וּ֝שְׁנֵיהֶ֗ם בַּנְּעִימִֽים׃

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[If they hearken and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.950/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:JOB:877
# text = אִֽם־יִשְׁמְע֗וּ וְֽיַ֫עֲבֹ֥דוּ יְכַלּ֣וּ יְמֵיהֶ֣ם בַּטּ֑וֹב וּ֝שְׁנֵיהֶ֗ם בַּנְּעִימִֽים׃
# verse = JOB.36.11
1	אִֽם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	_	2	mark	_	Gloss=if|Ref=JOB_36:11!1|MId=o180360110011|Strong=0518|SpaceAfter=No
2	יִשְׁמְע֗וּ	שָׁמַע	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	5	advcl	_	Gloss=they.will.hear|Ref=JOB_36:11!2|MId=o180360110021|Strong=8085|Frame=A0:180360070032;A1:180360050021;|Type=yiqtol
3-4	וְֽיַ֫עֲבֹ֥דוּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	וְֽ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	4	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JOB_36:11!3|MId=o180360110031|Strong=2050b
4	יַ֫עֲבֹ֥דוּ	עָבַד	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=they.will.serve.[him]|Ref=JOB_36:11!3|MId=o180360110032|Strong=5647|Frame=A0:180360070032;A1:180360050021;|Type=yiqtol
5	יְכַלּ֣וּ	כָּלָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=PIEL|Number=Plur|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=they.will.bring.to.an.end|Ref=JOB_36:11!4|MId=o180360110041|Strong=3615|Frame=A0:180360070032;A1:180360110051;|Type=yiqtol
6-7	יְמֵיהֶ֣ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
6	יְמֵי	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	5	obj	_	Gloss=days|Ref=JOB_36:11!5|MId=o180360110051|Strong=3117
7	הֶ֣ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=JOB_36:11!5|MId=o180360110052|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
8-10	בַּטּ֑וֹב	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	Gloss=in|Ref=JOB_36:11!6|MId=o180360110061|Strong=0871a
9	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	10	det	_	Gloss=(the)|Ref=JOB_36:11!6|MId=o180360110061ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
10	טּ֑וֹב	טוֹב	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Gloss=good|Ref=JOB_36:11!6|MId=o180360110062|Strong=2896|Type=adjective
11-13	וּ֝שְׁנֵיהֶ֗ם	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	וּ֝	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	12	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=JOB_36:11!7|MId=o180360110071|Strong=2050b
12	שְׁנֵי	שָׁנָה	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Dual	5	conj	_	Gloss=years|Ref=JOB_36:11!7|MId=o180360110072|Strong=8141|Type=cardinal_number
13	הֶ֗ם	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	Gloss=their|Ref=JOB_36:11!7|MId=o180360110073|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal
14-16	בַּנְּעִימִֽים	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
14	בַּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	16	case	_	Gloss=in.(the)|Ref=JOB_36:11!8|MId=o180360110081|Strong=0871a
15	ה	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	16	det	_	Gloss=pleasant|Ref=JOB_36:11!8|MId=o180360110081ה|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
16	נְּעִימִֽים	נָעִים	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	12	obl	_	Gloss=[things]|Ref=JOB_36:11!8|MId=o180360110082|Strong=5273|Type=adjective
17	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	16	punct	_	Ref=JOB_36:11!8
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- speech: inside a quote begun earlier
- negation: no

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יִשְׁמְעוּ *they will hear* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| יַעֲבֹדוּ *they will serve \[him\]* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| יְכַלּוּ *they will bring to an end* | yiqtol · piel |  | יְמֵי *days* |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## The Targum {#onkelos}

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אִין יִשְׁמָעוּן וּפַלְחִין לֵיהּ יְשַׁלְמוּן יוֹמֵיהוֹן בְּטָב וּשְׁנֵיהוֹן בְּמַזְמוּטִין:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [If they hearken and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.950/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:JOB:877`.

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