--- title: Job 1:15 (JPS 1917) — and the Sabeans made a raid, and took them away; yea, they have slai… · tree and pragmatics description: and the Sabeans made a raid, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.' Who acts: Sabeans. 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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 (Sabeans), 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:15 # text = and the Sabeans made a raid, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.' 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Sabeans sabean PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 raid raid NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 yea yea INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 slain slay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 escaped escape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 32 alone alone ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 35 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the Sabeans | a raid | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raid=Product | | 2 | **take away** | past | the Sabeans *not said here* | Sabeans *= sabean* | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **slay** | present · perfect | Sabeans *= sabean* | the servants | | | | with the edge of the sword | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent servant=Patient with edge=Instrument | | 4 | **escape** | present · passive | | I | | | | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | thee | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | 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} וַתִּפֹּ֤ל שְׁבָא֙ וַתִּקָּחֵ֔ם וְאֶת־הַנְּעָרִ֖ים הִכּ֣וּ לְפִי־חָ֑רֶב וָֽאִמָּ֨לְטָ֧ה רַק־אֲנִ֛י לְבַדִּ֖י לְהַגִּ֥יד לָֽךְ׃ [Job 1:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.15/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:15` 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. - ← previous: [Job 1:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.14/) - next →: [Job 1:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.16/) - ↑ back to [Job 1:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.15/)