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title: Job 40:32 (JPS 1917) — Lay thy hand upon him; think upon the battle, thou wilt do so no more. · tree and pragmatics
description: Lay thy hand upon him; think upon the battle, thou wilt do so no more. Who acts: you, thou. Job 40:32 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 40:32 · JPS 1917

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Lay thy hand upon him; think upon the battle, thou wilt do so no more.

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** lay, think, do · **To what, where:** hand

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This is Job 40:32 · 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 (you, 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:1128
# text = Lay thy hand upon him; think upon the battle, thou wilt do so no more.
1	Lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	no	no	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **lay** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy hand |  |  |  | upon hand | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon he=Destination |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon the battle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | future | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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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שִׂים־עָלָ֥יו כַּפֶּ֑ךָ זְכֹ֥ר מִ֝לְחָמָ֗ה אַל־תּוֹסַֽף׃

[Job 40:32: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.32/)

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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:1128` 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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