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title: Job 6:6 (JPS 1917) — Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any… · tree and pragmatics
description: Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the juice of mallows? Job 6:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 6:6 · JPS 1917

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Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the juice of mallows?

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**What happens:** have, eat, be · **To what, where:** savour, that, taste, juice

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This is Job 6:6 · 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: 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:123
# text = Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the juice of mallows?
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	savour	savour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	mallows	mallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=ask, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | no savour |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent savour=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | can · passive |  | that |  |  |  | without salt | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | any taste |  | the juice of mallows |  |  | 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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הֲיֵאָכֵ֣ל תָּ֭פֵל מִבְּלִי־מֶ֑לַח אִם־יֶשׁ־טַ֝֗עַם בְּרִ֣יר חַלָּמֽוּת׃

[Job 6:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.6/)

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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:123` 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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