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title: Job 41:18 (JPS 1917) — If one lay at him with the sword, it will not hold; nor the spear, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: If one lay at him with the sword, it will not hold; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. Who acts: one, mighty. Job 41:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 41:18 · JPS 1917

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If one lay at him with the sword, it will not hold; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

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**Who acts:** one, mighty · **What happens:** lay, not hold

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This is Job 41:18 · 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 (one, mighty), 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:1149
# text = If one lay at him with the sword, it will not hold; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dart	dart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	shaft	shaft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **lay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | one |  |  |  |  | at air; with the sword | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at he=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **hold** | future | mighty |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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מַשִּׂיגֵ֣הוּ חֶ֭רֶב בְּלִ֣י תָק֑וּם חֲנִ֖ית מַסָּ֣ע וְשִׁרְיָֽה׃

[Job 41:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.18/)

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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:1149` 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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