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title: Job 42:2 (JPS 1917) — I know that Thou canst do every thing, and that no purpose can be wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: I know that Thou canst do every thing, and that no purpose can be withholden from Thee. Who acts: I, Thou. Job 42:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 42:2 · JPS 1917

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I know that Thou canst do every thing, and that no purpose can be withholden from Thee.

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**Who acts:** I, Thou · **What happens:** know, do, withholden · **To what, where:** thing, purpose, Thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 42:2 · 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 (I, 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:1159
# text = I know that Thou canst do every thing, and that no purpose can be withholden from Thee.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	withholden	withholden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | can | Thou | every thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **withholden** | can · passive |  | no purpose |  | Thee |  |  | tree rules |

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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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יָ֭דַעְתִּי כִּי־כֹ֣ל תּוּכָ֑ל וְלֹא־יִבָּצֵ֖ר מִמְּךָ֣ מְזִמָּֽה׃

[Job 42:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.42.2/)

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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:1159` 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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