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title: Job 42:9 (JPS 1917) — So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamat… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them; and the LORD accepted Job. Who acts: Eliphaz, LORD. Job 42:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 42:9 · JPS 1917

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So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them; and the LORD accepted Job.

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**Who acts:** Eliphaz, LORD · **What happens:** go, do, command, accept · **To what, where:** bullocks, Job · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 42:9 · 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 (Eliphaz, LORD), 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:1167
# text = So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them; and the LORD accepted Job.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	Eliphaz	Eliphaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
4	Temanite	Temanite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Bildad	Bildad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Shuhite	Shuhite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Zophar	Zophar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Naamathite	Naamathite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	according	according	ADP	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	Job	Job	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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** | past | the Eliphaz and Bildad and Zophar |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | the Eliphaz and Bildad and Zophar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **command** | past | the LORD | bullocks *= bullock* |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 4 | **accept** | past | the LORD | Job |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=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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וַיֵּלְכוּ֩ אֱלִיפַ֨ז הַתֵּֽימָנִ֜י וּבִלְדַּ֣ד הַשּׁוּחִ֗י צֹפַר֙ הַנַּ֣עֲמָתִ֔י וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֔וּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר דִּבֶּ֥ר אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם יְהוָ֑ה וַיִּשָּׂ֥א יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־פְּנֵ֥י אִיּֽוֹב׃

[Job 42:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.42.9/)

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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:1167` 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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