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title: Job 40:25 (JPS 1917) — Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his to… · tree and pragmatics
description: Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his tongue with a cord? Who acts: thou. Job 40:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 40:25 · JPS 1917

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Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his tongue with a cord?

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** draw out, press down · **To what, where:** leviathan, tongue

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This is Job 40:25 · 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), 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:1119
# text = Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his tongue with a cord?
1	Canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	leviathan	leviathan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	press	press	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **draw out** | can | thou | leviathan |  |  |  | with a fish hook | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leviathan=Theme |
| 2 | **press down** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | Jordan's tongue |  |  |  | with a cord | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=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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תִּמְשֹׁ֣ךְ לִוְיָתָ֣ן בְּחַכָּ֑ה וּ֝בְחֶ֗בֶל תַּשְׁקִ֥יעַ לְשֹׁנֽוֹ׃

[Job 40:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.25/)

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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:1119` 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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