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title: Job 7:21 (JPS 1917) — For now shall I lie down in the dust; and Thou wilt seek me, but I s… · tree and pragmatics
description: For now shall I lie down in the dust; and Thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be. Who acts: I, Thou. Job 7:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 7:21 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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For now shall I lie down in the dust; and Thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.

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**Who acts:** I, Thou · **What happens:** lie down, seek · **To what, where:** dust, me

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This is Job 7:21 · 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 (I, 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:173
# text = For now shall I lie down in the dust; and Thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | shall | I |  |  | the dust | now | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dust=Location |
| 2 | **seek** | future | Thou | me |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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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וּמֶ֤ה ׀ לֹא־תִשָּׂ֣א פִשְׁעִי֮ וְתַעֲבִ֪יר אֶת־עֲוֺ֫נִ֥י כִּֽי־עַ֭תָּה לֶעָפָ֣ר אֶשְׁכָּ֑ב וְשִׁ֖חֲרְתַּ֣נִי וְאֵינֶֽנִּי׃פ

[Job 7:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.21/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [And why dost Thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.172/)
2. **For now shall I lie down in the dust; and Thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be.**

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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:173` 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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