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title: Job 6:9 (JPS 1917) — Even that it would please God to crush me; that He would let loose H… · tree and pragmatics
description: Even that it would please God to crush me; that He would let loose His hand, and cut me off! Who acts: thing, God. Job 6:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 6:9 · JPS 1917

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Even that it would please God to crush me; that He would let loose His hand, and cut me off!

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**Who acts:** thing, God · **What happens:** please, crush, let, cut off · **To what, where:** God, me, hand

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This is Job 6:9 · 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 (thing, God), 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:126
# text = Even that it would please God to crush me; that He would let loose His hand, and cut me off!
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **please** | would | thing | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **crush** | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **let** | would | God | God's hand |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **cut off** | infinitive | God *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector i=Eventuality |

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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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וְיֹאֵ֣ל אֱ֭לוֹהַּ וִֽידַכְּאֵ֑נִי יַתֵּ֥ר יָ֝ד֗וֹ וִֽיבַצְּעֵֽנִי׃

[Job 6:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.9/)

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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:126` 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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