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title: Job 40:31 (JPS 1917) — Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish-sp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish-spears? Who acts: thou. Job 40:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 40:31 · JPS 1917

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Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish-spears?

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** fill · **To what, where:** skin

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This is Job 40:31 · 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:1127
# text = Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish-spears?
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	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	barbed	barbed	ADJ	JJ	_	8	amod	_	_
8	irons	iron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **fill** | can | thou | Jordan's skin |  |  |  | with barbed irons; with fish spears | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent skin=Patient with iron=Instrument |

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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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הַֽתְמַלֵּ֣א בְשֻׂכּ֣וֹת עוֹר֑וֹ וּבְצִלְצַ֖ל דָּגִ֣ים רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃

[Job 40:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.31/)

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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:1127` 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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