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title: Job 40:5 (JPS 1917) — Once have I spoken, but I will not answer again; yea, twice, but I w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Once have I spoken, but I will not answer again; yea, twice, but I will proceed no further. Who acts: I. Job 40:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 40:5 · JPS 1917

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Once have I spoken, but I will not answer again; yea, twice, but I will proceed no further.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** speak, not answer, proceed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 40:5 · 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 (I), 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:1097
# text = Once have I spoken, but I will not answer again; yea, twice, but I will proceed no further.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	no	no	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	further	further	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | future | I |  |  |  | again |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **proceed** | future | I |  |  |  |  | further, twice *property* | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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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אַחַ֣ת דִּ֭בַּרְתִּי וְלֹ֣א אֶֽעֱנֶ֑ה וּ֝שְׁתַּ֗יִם וְלֹ֣א אוֹסִֽיף׃פ

[Job 40:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.5/)

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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:1097` 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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