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title: Job 5:21 (JPS 1917) — Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. Who acts: thou, destruction. Job 5:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 5:21 · JPS 1917

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Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

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**Who acts:** thou, destruction · **What happens:** hide, be, come · **To what, where:** Thou, scourge

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This is Job 5:21 · 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 (thou, destruction), 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:111
# text = Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	hid	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	scourge	scourge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
13	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | shall · passive |  | Thou |  | the scourge of the tongue |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from scourge=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | shall | thou |  |  |  |  | of destruction; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | destruction |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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בְּשׁ֣וֹט לָ֭שׁוֹן תֵּחָבֵ֑א וְֽלֹא־תִירָ֥א מִ֝שֹּׁ֗ד כִּ֣י יָבֽוֹא׃

[Job 5:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.21/)

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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:111` 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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