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title: Job 42:3 (JPS 1917) — Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? · tree and pragmatics
description: Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Job 42:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 42:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge?

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**What happens:** be, hide · **To what, where:** this, counsel

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This is Job 42:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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: 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:1160
# text = Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hideth	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | present |  | counsel |  |  |  | without knowledge | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Patient |

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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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מִ֤י זֶ֨ה ׀ מַעְלִ֥ים עֵצָ֗ה בְּֽלִ֫י דָ֥עַת לָכֵ֣ן הִ֭גַּדְתִּי וְלֹ֣א אָבִ֑ין נִפְלָא֥וֹת מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי וְלֹ֣א אֵדָֽע׃

[Job 42:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.42.3/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge?**
2. [Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1161/)

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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:1160` 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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