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title: Job 38:27 (JPS 1917) — To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? Who acts: bud. Job 38:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 38:27 · JPS 1917

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To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

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**Who acts:** bud · **What happens:** satisfy, cause, spring · **To what, where:** desolate ground, bud

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This is Job 38:27 · 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 (bud), 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:1031
# text = To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	desolate	desolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	waste	waste	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
20	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no 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 | **satisfy** | to-infinitive |  | the desolate ground |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ground=Experiencer |
| 2 | **cause** | to-infinitive |  | the bud of the tender herb |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spring** | to-infinitive | the bud of the tender herb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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לְהַשְׂבִּ֣יעַ שֹׁ֭אָהוּמְשֹׁאָ֑ה וּ֝לְהַצְמִ֗יחַ מֹ֣צָא דֶֽשֶׁא׃

[Job 38:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.27/)

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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:1031` 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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