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title: Job 1:18 (JPS 1917) — While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said: 'Thy s… · tree and pragmatics
description: While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said: 'Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house; Who acts: fire, another, sons. Job 1:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 1:18 · JPS 1917

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While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said: 'Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;

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**Who acts:** fire, another, sons · **What happens:** speak, come, say, eat, drink · **To what, where:** house, wine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 1:18 · 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 (fire, another, sons), 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:18
# text = While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said: 'Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
16	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
25	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	eldest	eldest	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · progressive | fire |  |  |  | yet |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | another |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | another *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **eat** | past · progressive | Thy sons and thy daughters |  |  | sons's eldest brother's house |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drink** | gerund | Thy sons and thy daughters *not said here* | wine |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=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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עַ֚ד זֶ֣ה מְדַבֵּ֔ר וְזֶ֖ה בָּ֣א וַיֹּאמַ֑ר בָּנֶ֨יךָ וּבְנוֹתֶ֤יךָ אֹֽכְלִים֙ וְשֹׁתִ֣ים יַ֔יִן בְּבֵ֖ית אֲחִיהֶ֥ם הַבְּכֽוֹר׃

[Job 1:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.18/)

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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:18` 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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