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title: Job 40:23 (JPS 1917) — Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; he is confident, thou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; he is confident, though the Jordan rush forth to his mouth. Who acts: river, Jordan. Job 40:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 40:23 · JPS 1917

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Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; he is confident, though the Jordan rush forth to his mouth.

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**Who acts:** river, Jordan · **What happens:** overflow, not tremble, be, rush

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This is Job 40:23 · 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 (river, Jordan), 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:1117
# text = Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; he is confident, though the Jordan rush forth to his mouth.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	overflow	overflow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	trembleth	tremble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	confident	confident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rush	rush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overflow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a river |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **tremble** | present | river |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | river |  |  |  |  | confident *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rush** | present | the Jordan |  |  |  |  | to Jordan's mouth *result*; forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mouth=Result |

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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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הֵ֤ן יַעֲשֹׁ֣ק נָ֭הָר לֹ֣א יַחְפּ֑וֹז יִבְטַ֓ח ׀ כִּֽי־יָגִ֖יחַ יַרְדֵּ֣ן אֶל־פִּֽיהוּ׃

[Job 40:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.23/)

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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:1117` 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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