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title: Job 8:15 (JPS 1917) — He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold… · tree and pragmatics
description: He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure. Who acts: hope, trust. Job 8:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 8:15 · JPS 1917

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He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

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**Who acts:** hope, trust · **What happens:** lean, not stand, hold, not endure · **To what, where:** house

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This is Job 8:15 · 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 (hope, trust), 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:190
# text = He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
18	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean** | shall | hope |  |  | hope's house |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon house=Location |
| 2 | **not** **stand** | shall | trust |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | shall | hope |  |  |  |  | fast, thereby *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **endure** | shall | trust |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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יִשָּׁעֵ֣ן עַל־בֵּ֭יתוֹ וְלֹ֣א יַעֲמֹ֑ד יַחֲזִ֥יק בּ֝֗וֹ וְלֹ֣א יָקֽוּם׃

[Job 8:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.15/)

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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:190` 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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