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title: Job 41:12 (JPS 1917) — Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burnin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes. Who acts: smoke. Job 41:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 41:12 · JPS 1917

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Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes.

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**Who acts:** smoke · **What happens:** go, seethe, burn · **To what, where:** seething pot

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This is Job 41:12 · 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 (smoke), 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:1143
# text = Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes.
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
5	goeth	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	seething	seethe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **go** | present | smoke |  |  | a seething pot and burning rushes |  | of air's nostrils | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of nostril=Initial\_Location out pot=Destination |
| 2 | **seethe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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מִ֭נְּחִירָיו יֵצֵ֣א עָשָׁ֑ן כְּד֖וּד נָפ֣וּחַ וְאַגְמֹֽן׃

[Job 41:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.12/)

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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:1143` 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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