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title: Job 7:17 (JPS 1917) — What is man, that Thou shouldest magnify him, and that Thou shouldes… · tree and pragmatics
description: What is man, that Thou shouldest magnify him, and that Thou shouldest set Thy heart upon him, Who acts: man, Thou. Job 7:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 7:17 · JPS 1917

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What is man, that Thou shouldest magnify him, and that Thou shouldest set Thy heart upon him,

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**Who acts:** man, Thou · **What happens:** be, magnify, set · **To what, where:** man, heart

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This is Job 7:17 · 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 (man, Thou), 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:167
# text = What is man, that Thou shouldest magnify him, and that Thou shouldest set Thy heart upon him,
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
7	shouldest	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	magnify	magnify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
14	shouldest	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **magnify** | should | Thou | man |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **set** | should | Thou | Thy heart |  |  |  | upon man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme upon he=Destination |

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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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מָֽה־אֱ֭נוֹשׁ כִּ֣י תְגַדְּלֶ֑נּוּ וְכִי־תָשִׁ֖ית אֵלָ֣יו לִבֶּֽךָ׃

[Job 7:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.17/)

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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:167` 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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