--- title: Job 40:9 (JPS 1917) — And canst thou thunder with a voice like Him? · tree and pragmatics description: And canst thou thunder with a voice like Him? Who acts: thou. Job 40:9 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.1103/) [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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/40/) / [40:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.9/) / JPS 2 # Job 40:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 And canst thou thunder with a voice like Him? **Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** thunder This is Job 40:9 · 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:1103 # text = And canst thou thunder with a voice like Him? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 canst can AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nsubj _ _ 4 thunder thunder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nmod _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=q | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **thunder** | can | thou | | | | | with a voice like God | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=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} וְאִם־זְר֖וֹעַ כָּאֵ֥ל ׀ לָ֑ךְ וּ֝בְק֗וֹל כָּמֹ֥הוּ תַרְעֵֽם׃ [Job 40:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.9/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Or hast thou an arm like God?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1102/) 2. **And canst thou thunder with a voice like Him?** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:1103` 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 40:9 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1102/) - next →: [Job 40:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1104/) - ↑ back to [Job 40:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.9/)