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title: Job 39:9 (JPS 1917) — Will the wild-ox be willing to serve thee? · tree and pragmatics
description: Will the wild-ox be willing to serve thee? Who acts: wild ox. Job 39:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 39:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Will the wild-ox be willing to serve thee?

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**Who acts:** wild ox · **What happens:** be, serve · **To what, where:** thee

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This is Job 39:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (wild ox), 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:1064
# text = Will the wild-ox be willing to serve thee?
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obj	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | future | the wild ox |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | to-infinitive | the wild ox *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Attribute |

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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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הֲיֹ֣אבֶה רֵּ֣יםעָבְדֶ֑ךָ אִם־יָ֝לִ֗ין עַל־אֲבוּסֶֽךָ׃

[Job 39:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Will the wild-ox be willing to serve thee?**
2. [Or will he abide by thy crib?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1065/)

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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:1064` 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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