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title: Job 39:17 (JPS 1917) — Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath He imparted to… · tree and pragmatics
description: Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath He imparted to her understanding. Who acts: God, beast. Job 39:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 39:17 · JPS 1917

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Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath He imparted to her understanding.

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**Who acts:** God, beast · **What happens:** deprive, impart, understand · **To what, where:** beast

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This is Job 39:17 · 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 (God, beast), 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:1075
# text = Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath He imparted to her understanding.
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	deprived	deprive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
10	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	imparted	impart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **deprive** | present · perfect | God | beast |  |  |  | of wisdom | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Source of wisdom=Theme |
| 2 | **impart** | present · perfect | God |  |  |  |  | to beast's understanding | tree rules |
| 3 | **understand** |  | beast |  |  |  |  |  | nom understanding «cognition transitive»: poss=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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כִּֽי־הִשָּׁ֣הּ אֱל֣וֹהַּ חָכְמָ֑ה וְלֹא־חָ֥לַק לָ֝הּ֗ בַּבִּינָֽה׃

[Job 39:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.17/)

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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:1075` 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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