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title: Job 40:20 (JPS 1917) — Surely the mountains bring him forth food, and all the beasts of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Surely the mountains bring him forth food, and all the beasts of the field play there. Who acts: mountains, beasts. Job 40:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 40:20 · JPS 1917

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Surely the mountains bring him forth food, and all the beasts of the field play there.

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**Who acts:** mountains, beasts · **What happens:** bring, play · **To what, where:** food, hand

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This is Job 40:20 · 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 (mountains, beasts), 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:1114
# text = Surely the mountains bring him forth food, and all the beasts of the field play there.
1	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | the mountains | food | hand |  |  | forth, surely *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination food=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | present | all beasts of the field |  |  | there |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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כִּֽי־ב֭וּל הָרִ֣ים יִשְׂאוּ־ל֑וֹ וְֽכָל־חַיַּ֥ת הַ֝שָּׂדֶ֗ה יְשַֽׂחֲקוּ־שָֽׁם׃

[Job 40:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.20/)

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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:1114` 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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