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title: Job 9:34 (JPS 1917) — Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His terror make me af… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His terror make me afraid; Who acts: you, arbiter, terror. Job 9:34 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 9:34 · JPS 1917

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Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His terror make me afraid;

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**Who acts:** you, arbiter, terror · **What happens:** let, take away, not let, make · **To what, where:** arbiter, rod, me

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This is Job 9:34 · 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 (you, arbiter, terror), 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:233
# text = Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His terror make me afraid;
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | arbiter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take away** | infinitive | arbiter *not said here* | arbiter's rod |  |  |  | from me; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme from i=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **not** **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | arbiter's terror | me |  |  |  | afraid *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |

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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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יָסֵ֣ר מֵעָלַ֣י שִׁבְט֑וֹ וְ֝אֵמָת֗וֹ אַֽל־תְּבַעֲתַֽנִּי׃

[Job 9:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.34/)

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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:233` 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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