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title: Job 6:30 (JPS 1917) — Cannot my taste discern crafty devices? · tree and pragmatics
description: Cannot my taste discern crafty devices? Who acts: taste, my. Job 6:30 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 6:30 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Cannot my taste discern crafty devices?

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**Who acts:** taste, my · **What happens:** not discern, taste · **To what, where:** crafty devices

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This is Job 6:30 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (taste, my), 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:149
# text = Cannot my taste discern crafty devices?
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	discern	discern	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	crafty	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	devices	device	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **discern** | can | my taste | crafty devices |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer device=Stimulus |
| 2 | **taste** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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הֲיֵשׁ־בִּלְשׁוֹנִ֥י עַוְלָ֑ה אִם־חִ֝כִּ֗י לֹא־יָבִ֥ין הַוּֽוֹת׃

[Job 6:30: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.30/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Is there injustice on my tongue?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.148/)
2. **Cannot my taste discern crafty devices?**

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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:149` 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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