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title: Job 40:15 (JPS 1917) — Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Who acts: I, hand. Job 40:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 40:15 · JPS 1917

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Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

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**Who acts:** I, hand · **What happens:** make, eat · **To what, where:** behemoth, grass

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This is Job 40:15 · 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, hand), 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:1109
# text = Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	behemoth	behemoth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	eateth	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | I | behemoth |  |  |  | with thee | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Product |
| 2 | **eat** | present | hand | grass |  |  |  | as a ox | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |

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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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הִנֵּה־נָ֣א בְ֭הֵמוֹת אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֣יתִי עִמָּ֑ךְ חָ֝צִ֗יר כַּבָּקָ֥ר יֹאכֵֽל׃

[Job 40:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.15/)

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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:1109` 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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