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title: Job 38:26 (JPS 1917) — To cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: To cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; Who acts: waterflood. Job 38:26 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 38:26 · JPS 1917

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To cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

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**Who acts:** waterflood · **What happens:** cause, rain · **To what, where:** waterflood, land

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This is Job 38:26 · 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 (waterflood), 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:1030
# text = To cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	rain	rain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	_	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
23	;	;	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 | **cause** | to-infinitive |  | waterflood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rain** | to-infinitive | waterflood *not said here* |  |  | a land |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |

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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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לְ֭הַמְטִיר עַל־אֶ֣רֶץ לֹא־אִ֑ישׁ מִ֝דְבָּ֗ר לֹא־אָדָ֥ם בּֽוֹ׃

[Job 38:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.26/)

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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:1030` 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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