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title: Job 1:1 (JPS 1917) — THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man… · tree and pragmatics
description: THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was whole-hearted and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil. Who acts: man, name, Job. Job 1:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 1:1 · JPS 1917

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THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was whole-hearted and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil.

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**Who acts:** man, name, Job · **What happens:** be, fear, shun, name · **To what, where:** Job, God, evil

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This is Job 1:1 · 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, name, Job), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:JOB:0
# text = THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was whole-hearted and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil.
1	THERE	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Uz	Uz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Job	Job	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	one	one	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	conj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	shunned	shun	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
34	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a man in the land of Uz |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Job's name | Job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | that man |  |  |  |  | hearted *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | that man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fear** | past |  | God |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |
| 6 | **shun** | past |  | evil |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent evil=Location |
| 7 | **name** |  | Job |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#hebrew}

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אִ֛ישׁ הָיָ֥ה בְאֶֽרֶץ־ע֖וּץ אִיּ֣וֹב שְׁמ֑וֹ וְהָיָ֣ה ׀ הָאִ֣ישׁ הַה֗וּא תָּ֧ם וְיָשָׁ֛ר וִירֵ֥א אֱלֹהִ֖ים וְסָ֥ר מֵרָֽע׃

[Job 1:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.1/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:0` 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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