--- title: Job 39:20 (JPS 1917) — Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? · tree and pragmatics description: Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? Who acts: thou, God. Job 39:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1079/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/) / [chapter 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/39/) / [39:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.20/) / JPS 1 # Job 39:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? **Who acts:** thou, God · **What happens:** make, leap · **To what, where:** God This is Job 39:20 · 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 (thou, God), 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:1079 # text = Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? 1 Hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 3 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 leap leap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 locust locust NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · perfect | thou | God | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **leap** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | | | | | as a locust | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} הְֽ֭תַרְעִישֶׁנּוּ כָּאַרְבֶּ֑ה ה֖וֹד נַחְר֣וֹ אֵימָֽה׃ [Job 39:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.20/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Hast thou made him to leap as a locust?** 2. [The glory of his snorting is terrible.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1080/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:1079` 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. - ← previous: [Job 39:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1078/) - next →: [Job 39:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1080/) - ↑ back to [Job 39:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.20/)