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title: Job 10:3 (JPS 1917) — Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress, that Thou shouldes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress, that Thou shouldest despise the work of Thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? Who acts: Thou, hands. Job 10:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 10:3 · JPS 1917

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Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress, that Thou shouldest despise the work of Thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

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**Who acts:** Thou, hands · **What happens:** be, oppress, despise, shine, work · **To what, where:** work, counsel

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This is Job 10:3 · 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 (Thou, hands), 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:237
# text = Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress, that Thou shouldest despise the work of Thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shouldest	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	oppress	oppress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shouldest	should	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	despise	despise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nmod	_	_
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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** | present |  |  |  |  |  | unto Thee; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **oppress** | should | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **despise** | should | Thou | the work of Thy hands |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus |
| 4 | **shine** | infinitive | Thou *not said here* |  |  | the counsel of the wicked |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon counsel=Location |
| 5 | **work** |  | Thy hands |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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הֲט֤וֹב לְךָ֨ ׀ כִּֽי־תַעֲשֹׁ֗ק כִּֽי־תִ֭מְאַס יְגִ֣יעַ כַּפֶּ֑יךָ וְעַל־עֲצַ֖ת רְשָׁעִ֣ים הוֹפָֽעְתָּ׃

[Job 10:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.3/)

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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:237` 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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