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title: Job 39:1 (JPS 1917) — Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? · tree and pragmatics
description: Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? Who acts: thou, hinds. Job 39:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 39:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

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**Who acts:** thou, hinds · **What happens:** mark, calve

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This is Job 39:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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, hinds), 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:1054
# text = Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mark	mark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hinds	hind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	calve	calve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | can | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **calve** | present · do-support | the hinds |  |  |  |  |  | vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: 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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הֲיָדַ֗עְתָּ עֵ֭ת לֶ֣דֶת יַעֲלֵי־סָ֑לַע חֹלֵ֖ל אַיָּל֣וֹת תִּשְׁמֹֽר׃

[Job 39:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1053/)
2. **Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?**

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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:1054` 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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