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title: Job 9:27 (JPS 1917) — If I say: 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad counten… · tree and pragmatics
description: If I say: 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer', Who acts: I, my. Job 9:27 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 9:27 · JPS 1917

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If I say: 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer',

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** say, forget, put off, be, complain · **To what, where:** complaint, sad countenance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 9:27 · 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, my), 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:226
# text = If I say: 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer',
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
25	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **forget** | future | I | my complaint |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put off** | future | I | my sad countenance |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent countenance=Goal |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of good cheer | tree rules |
| 5 | **complain** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom complaint «state intransitive»: 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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אִם־אָ֭מְרִי אֶשְׁכְּחָ֣ה שִׂיחִ֑י אֶעֶזְבָ֖ה פָנַ֣י וְאַבְלִֽיגָה׃

[Job 9:27: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.27/)

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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:226` 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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