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title: Job 38:12 (JPS 1917) — Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, and caused the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, and caused the dayspring to know its place; Who acts: thou, days, dayspring. Job 38:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 38:12 · JPS 1917

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Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, and caused the dayspring to know its place;

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**Who acts:** thou, days, dayspring · **What happens:** command, begin, cause, know · **To what, where:** dayspring, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 38:12 · 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 (thou, days, dayspring), 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:1013
# text = Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, and caused the dayspring to know its place;
1	Hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dayspring	dayspring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	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 | **command** | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  | morning |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past | thy days |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cause** | past | thou *not said here* | the dayspring |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | to-infinitive | the dayspring *not said here* | dayspring's place |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |

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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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הְֽ֭מִיָּמֶיךָצִוִּ֣יתָ בֹּ֑קֶר יִדַּ֖עְתָּה הַשַּׁ֣חַרמְקֹמֽוֹ׃

[Job 38:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.12/)

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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:1013` 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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