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title: Job 9:19 (JPS 1917) — If it be a matter of strength, lo, He is mighty! and if of justice,… · tree and pragmatics
description: If it be a matter of strength, lo, He is mighty! and if of justice, who will appoint me a time? Who acts: it, God. Job 9:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 9:19 · JPS 1917

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If it be a matter of strength, lo, He is mighty! and if of justice, who will appoint me a time?

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**Who acts:** it, God · **What happens:** be, appoint · **To what, where:** matter, me

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This is Job 9:19 · 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 (it, God), 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:218
# text = If it be a matter of strength, lo, He is mighty! and if of justice, who will appoint me a time?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	appoint	appoint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=evaluate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | it | a matter |  |  |  | of strength | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | God |  |  |  |  | mighty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **appoint** | future |  | me |  |  | time | if justice | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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אִם־לְכֹ֣חַ אַמִּ֣יץ הִנֵּ֑ה וְאִם־לְ֝מִשְׁפָּ֗ט מִ֣י יוֹעִידֵֽנִי׃

[Job 9:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.19/)

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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:218` 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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