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title: Job 40:8 (JPS 1917) — Wilt thou condemn Me, that thou mayest be justified? · tree and pragmatics
description: Wilt thou condemn Me, that thou mayest be justified? Who acts: thou. Job 40:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 40:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Wilt thou condemn Me, that thou mayest be justified?

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** condemn, justify · **To what, where:** Me, thou

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This is Job 40:8 · 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 (thou), 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:1101
# text = Wilt thou condemn Me, that thou mayest be justified?
1	Wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	condemn	condemn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	justified	justify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **condemn** | future | thou | Me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **justify** *speech: other* | may · passive |  | thou |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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הַ֭אַף תָּפֵ֣ר מִשְׁפָּטִ֑י תַּ֝רְשִׁיעֵ֗נִי לְמַ֣עַן תִּצְדָּֽק׃

[Job 40:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.8/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Wilt thou even make void My judgment?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1100/)
2. **Wilt thou condemn Me, that thou mayest be justified?**

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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:1101` 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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