--- title: Job 40:30 (JPS 1917) — Will the bands of fishermen make a banquet of him? · tree and pragmatics description: Will the bands of fishermen make a banquet of him? Who acts: bands. Job 40:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1125/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/) / [chapter 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/40/) / [40:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.30/) / JPS 1 # Job 40:30 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 Will the bands of fishermen make a banquet of him? **Who acts:** bands · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** banquet This is Job 40:30 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (bands), 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:1125 # text = Will the bands of fishermen make a banquet of him? 1 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 fishermen fisherman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod _ _ 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | future | the bands of fishermen | a banquet of Jordan | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset banquet=Product | 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} יִכְר֣וּ עָ֭לָיו חַבָּרִ֑ים יֶ֝חֱצ֗וּהוּ בֵּ֣ין כְּֽנַעֲנִֽים׃ [Job 40:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.30/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Will the bands of fishermen make a banquet of him?** 2. [Will they part him among the merchants?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1126/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:1125` 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. - ← previous: [Job 40:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1124/) - next →: [Job 40:30 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1126/) - ↑ back to [Job 40:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.30/)