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title: Job 7:20 (JPS 1917) — Why hast Thou set me as a mark for Thee, so that I am a burden to my… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why hast Thou set me as a mark for Thee, so that I am a burden to myself? Who acts: Thou, I. Job 7:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 7:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Why hast Thou set me as a mark for Thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

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**Who acts:** Thou, I · **What happens:** set, be · **To what, where:** me, burden, myself

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This is Job 7:20 · 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 (Thou, 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:171
# text = Why hast Thou set me as a mark for Thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	hast	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	nmod	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | present · perfect | Thou | me |  |  |  | as a mark | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | present | I | a burden | myself |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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חָטָ֡אתִי מָ֤ה אֶפְעַ֨ל ׀ לָךְ֮ נֹצֵ֪ר הָאָ֫דָ֥ם לָ֤מָה שַׂמְתַּ֣נִי לְמִפְגָּ֣ע לָ֑ךְ וָאֶהְיֶ֖ה עָלַ֣י לְמַשָּֽׂא׃

[Job 7:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [If I have sinned, what do I unto Thee, O Thou watcher of men?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.170/)
2. **Why hast Thou set me as a mark for Thee, so that I am a burden to myself?**

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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:171` 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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