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title: Job 10:2 (JPS 1917) — I will say unto God: Do not condemn me; make me know wherefore Thou… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will say unto God: Do not condemn me; make me know wherefore Thou contendest with me. Who acts: I, me, Thou. Job 10:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 10:2 · JPS 1917

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I will say unto God: Do not condemn me; make me know wherefore Thou contendest with me.

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**Who acts:** I, me, Thou · **What happens:** say, not condemn, make, know, contend · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 10:2 · 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, me, Thou), 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:236
# text = I will say unto God: Do not condemn me; make me know wherefore Thou contendest with me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	condemn	condemn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
17	contendest	contend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | I |  |  |  |  | unto God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **condemn** | infinitive · do-support |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **contend** | present | Thou |  |  |  |  | with me; wherefore *property* | 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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אֹמַ֣ר אֶל־אֱ֭לוֹהַּ אַל־תַּרְשִׁיעֵ֑נִי הֽ֝וֹדִיעֵ֗נִי עַ֣ל מַה־תְּרִיבֵֽנִי׃

[Job 10:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.2/)

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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:236` 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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