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title: Job 6:5 (JPS 1917) — Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his… · tree and pragmatics
description: Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? Who acts: wild ass, ass. Job 6:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 6:5 · JPS 1917

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Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

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**Who acts:** wild ass, ass · **What happens:** bray, have, low · **To what, where:** grass, ox, fodder

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This is Job 6:5 · 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 (wild ass, ass), 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:122
# text = Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
1	Doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bray	bray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	loweth	low	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fodder	fodder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **bray** | present · do-support | the wild ass |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | ass | grass |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |
| 3 | **low** | present | the wild ass *not said here* | the ox |  | ass's fodder |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ox=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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הֲיִֽנְהַק־פֶּ֥רֶא עֲלֵי־דֶ֑שֶׁא אִ֥ם יִגְעֶה־שּׁ֝֗וֹר עַל־בְּלִילֽוֹ׃

[Job 6:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.5/)

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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:122` 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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