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title: Job 8:5 (JPS 1917) — If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication… · tree and pragmatics
description: If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; Who acts: thou, thy. Job 8:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 8:5 · JPS 1917

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If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

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**Who acts:** thou, thy · **What happens:** seek, make, supplicate · **To what, where:** supplication

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This is Job 8:5 · 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, thy), 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:179
# text = If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	supplication	supplication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Almighty	almighty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | would | thou |  |  |  |  | unto God; earnestly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | thy supplication |  |  |  | to the Almighty | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset supplication=Product |
| 3 | **supplicate** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom supplication «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אִם־אַ֭תָּה תְּשַׁחֵ֣ר אֶל־אֵ֑ל וְאֶל־שַׁ֝דַּ֗י תִּתְחַנָּֽן׃

[Job 8:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.5/)

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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:179` 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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