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title: Job 42:16 (JPS 1917) — And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons… · tree and pragmatics
description: And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. Who acts: Job. Job 42:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 42:16 · JPS 1917

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And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

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**Who acts:** Job · **What happens:** live, see · **To what, where:** sons

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This is Job 42:16 · 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 (Job), 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:1174
# text = And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	Job	Job	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	'	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **live** | past | this Job |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | this Job *not said here* | Job's sons and Job's sons's sons |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus |

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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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וַיְחִ֤י אִיּוֹב֙ אַֽחֲרֵי־זֹ֔את מֵאָ֥ה וְאַרְבָּעִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיִּרְאֶ֗ה אֶת־בָּנָיו֙ וְאֶת־בְּנֵ֣י בָנָ֔יו אַרְבָּעָ֖ה דֹּרֽוֹת׃

[Job 42:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.42.16/)

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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:1174` 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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