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title: Job 39:25 (JPS 1917) — As oft as he heareth the horn he saith: 'Ha, ha!' and he smelleth th… · tree and pragmatics
description: As oft as he heareth the horn he saith: 'Ha, ha!' and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. Who acts: God, captains. Job 39:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 39:25 · JPS 1917

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As oft as he heareth the horn he saith: 'Ha, ha!' and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

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**Who acts:** God, captains · **What happens:** hear, say, smell, thunder · **To what, where:** horn, battle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 39:25 · 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, captains), 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:1085
# text = As oft as he heareth the horn he saith: 'Ha, ha!' and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	oft	oft	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heareth	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saith	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	smelleth	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	afar	afar	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	off	off	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | God | the horn |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer horn=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | God |  |  |  |  | oft *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smell** | present | God | the battle |  |  |  | off *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **thunder** |  | the captains |  |  |  |  |  | nom thunder «event intransitive»: of=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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בְּדֵ֤י שֹׁפָ֨ר ׀ יֹ֘אמַ֤ר הֶאָ֗ח וּֽ֭מֵרָחוֹק יָרִ֣יחַ מִלְחָמָ֑ה רַ֥עַם שָׂ֝רִים וּתְרוּעָֽה׃

[Job 39:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.25/)

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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:1085` 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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