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title: Job 9:15 (JPS 1917) — Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to Him that contendeth with me. Who acts: I. Job 9:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 9:15 · JPS 1917

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Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to Him that contendeth with me.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, not answer, make, contend · **To what, where:** supplication, God

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This is Job 9:15 · 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 (I), 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:214
# text = Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to Him that contendeth with me.
1	Whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	supplication	supplication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	contendeth	contend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | righteous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | would | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent whom=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** | would | I | supplication | God |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supplication=Product |
| 4 | **contend** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with me | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-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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אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִם־צָ֭דַקְתִּי לֹ֣א אֶעֱנֶ֑ה לִ֝מְשֹׁפְטִ֗י אֶתְחַנָּֽן׃

[Job 9:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.15/)

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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:214` 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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