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title: Job 1:3 (JPS 1917) — His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand c… · tree and pragmatics
description: His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east. Who acts: possessions, man. Job 1:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tre
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# Job 1:3 · JPS 1917

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His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

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**Who acts:** possessions, man · **What happens:** be, possess · **To what, where:** thousand sheep

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This is Job 1:3 · 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 (possessions, man), 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:2
# text = His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	yoke	yoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	compound	_	_
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	compound	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	advcl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	44	det:predet	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | man's possessions | thousand sheep and thousand camels and hundred yoke of oxen and hundred she asses and a great household |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | this man |  |  |  |  | of all children of the east; great *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **possess** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act 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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וַיְהִ֣י מִ֠קְנֵהוּ שִֽׁבְעַ֨ת אַלְפֵי־צֹ֜אן וּשְׁלֹ֧שֶׁת אַלְפֵ֣י גְמַלִּ֗ים וַחֲמֵ֨שׁ מֵא֤וֹת צֶֽמֶד־בָּקָר֙ וַחֲמֵ֣שׁ מֵא֣וֹת אֲתוֹנ֔וֹת וַעֲבֻדָּ֖ה רַבָּ֣ה מְאֹ֑ד וַיְהִי֙ הָאִ֣ישׁ הַה֔וּא גָּד֖וֹל מִכָּל־בְּנֵי־קֶֽדֶם׃

[Job 1:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.3/)

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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:2` of Mova's parse database.

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