--- title: Job 39:20 (JPS 1917) — The glory of his snorting is terrible. · tree and pragmatics description: The glory of his snorting is terrible. Who acts: glory, snorting, 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.1080/) [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 2 # Job 39:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 The glory of his snorting is terrible. **Who acts:** glory, snorting, God · **What happens:** be, glory, snort This is Job 39:20 · 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 (glory, snorting, 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:1080 # text = The glory of his snorting is terrible. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 glory glory NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 snorting snorting NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the glory of God's snorting | | | | | terrible *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **glory** | | God's snorting | | | | | | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent | | 3 | **snort** | | God | | | | | | nom snorting «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1079/) 2. **The glory of his snorting is terrible.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:1080` 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 39:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1079/) - next →: [Job 39:21 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1081/) - ↑ back to [Job 39:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.20/)