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title: Job 5:17 (JPS 1917) — Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. Who acts: man, God, thou. Job 5:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 5:17 · JPS 1917

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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

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**Who acts:** man, God, thou · **What happens:** be, correct, not despise · **To what, where:** man, chastening

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This is Job 5:17 · 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 (man, God, thou), 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:107
# text = Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	correcteth	correct	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	despise	despise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chastening	chastening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Almighty	almighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the man |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | present | God | the man |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **despise** | infinitive | thou | the chastening of the Almighty |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chastening=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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הִנֵּ֤ה אַשְׁרֵ֣י אֱ֭נוֹשׁ יוֹכִחֶ֣נּֽוּ אֱל֑וֹהַּ וּמוּסַ֥ר שַׁ֝דַּ֗י אַל־תִּמְאָֽס׃

[Job 5:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.17/)

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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:107` 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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