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title: Job 38:7 (JPS 1917) — When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shoute… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Who acts: morning stars, sons. Job 38:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 38:7 · JPS 1917

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When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

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**Who acts:** morning stars, sons · **What happens:** sing, shout

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This is Job 38:7 · 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 (morning stars, sons), 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:1008
# text = When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- 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 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the morning stars |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | all sons of God |  |  |  |  | for joy | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient |

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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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בְּרָן־יַ֭חַד כּ֣וֹכְבֵי בֹ֑קֶר וַ֝יָּרִ֗יעוּ כָּל־בְּנֵ֥י אֱלֹהִֽים׃

[Job 38:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.7/)

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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:1008` 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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