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title: Job 7:3 (JPS 1917) — So am I made to possess — months of vanity, and wearisome nights are… · tree and pragmatics
description: So am I made to possess — months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. Who acts: I. Job 7:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 7:3 · JPS 1917

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So am I made to possess — months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** make, possess, appoint · **To what, where:** I, months, me

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This is Job 7:3 · 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 (I), 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:153
# text = So am I made to possess — months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
8	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **possess** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **appoint** | present · passive |  | months of vanity | me |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme to i=Attribute |

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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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כֵּ֤ן הָנְחַ֣לְתִּי לִ֭י יַרְחֵי־שָׁ֑וְא וְלֵיל֥וֹת עָ֝מָ֗ל מִנּוּ־לִֽי׃

[Job 7:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.3/)

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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:153` 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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