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title: Job 38:3 (JPS 1917) — Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and dec… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto Me. Who acts: you, I, thou. Job 38:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 38:3 · JPS 1917

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Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto Me.

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**Who acts:** you, I, thou · **What happens:** gird up, demand, declare · **To what, where:** loins

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This is Job 38:3 · 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, I, 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:JOB:1001
# text = Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto Me.
1	Gird	gird	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	loins	loin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	demand	demand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=request, form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gird up** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy loins |  |  | now | like a man | tree rules |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | future | I |  |  |  |  | of thee | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  | unto Me | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=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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אֱזָר־נָ֣א כְגֶ֣בֶר חֲלָצֶ֑יךָ וְ֝אֶשְׁאָלְךָ֗ וְהוֹדִיעֵֽנִי׃

[Job 38:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.3/)

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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:1001` 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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