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title: Job 1:21 (JPS 1917) — And he said; naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he said; naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither; the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. Who acts: fire, I, LORD. Job 1:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 1:21 · JPS 1917

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And he said; naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither; the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

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**Who acts:** fire, I, LORD · **What happens:** say, come, return, give, take away, bless · **To what, where:** womb, name, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 1:21 · 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, I, LORD), 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:21
# text = And he said; naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither; the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
31	away	away	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
33	blessed	bless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past | I |  |  | my mother's womb |  | naked *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out womb=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **return** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | naked, thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **take away** | present · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **bless** | infinitive · passive |  | the name of the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **name** |  |  | the LORD |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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וַיֹּאמֶר֩ עָרֹ֨ם יָצָ֜אתִי מִבֶּ֣טֶן אִמִּ֗י וְעָרֹם֙ אָשׁ֣וּב שָׁ֔מָהיְהוָ֣ה נָתַ֔ן וַיהוָ֖ה לָקָ֑ח יְהִ֛י שֵׁ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה מְבֹרָֽךְ׃

[Job 1:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.21/)

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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:21` of Mova's parse database.

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