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title: Job 8:2 (JPS 1917) — How long wilt thou speak these things, seeing that the words of thy… · tree and pragmatics
description: How long wilt thou speak these things, seeing that the words of thy mouth are as a mighty wind? Who acts: thou, words. Job 8:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 8:2 · JPS 1917

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How long wilt thou speak these things, seeing that the words of thy mouth are as a mighty wind?

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**Who acts:** thou, words · **What happens:** speak, see, be, word · **To what, where:** things, mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 8:2 · 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 (thou, words), 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:175
# text = How long wilt thou speak these things, seeing that the words of thy mouth are as a mighty wind?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | future | thou | this things |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | the words of thy mouth |  |  |  |  | as a mighty wind | tree rules |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | thy mouth |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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עַד־אָ֥ן תְּמַלֶּל־אֵ֑לֶּה וְר֥וּחַ כַּ֝בִּיר אִמְרֵי־פִֽיךָ׃

[Job 8:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.2/)

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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:175` 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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