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title: Job 10:18 (JPS 1917) — Wherefore then hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb? · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherefore then hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb? Who acts: Thou. Job 10:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 10:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Wherefore then hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb?

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** me, womb

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This is Job 10:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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:252
# text = Wherefore then hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb?
1	Wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present · perfect | Thou | me |  | the womb | then | forth, wherefore *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out womb=Initial\_Location |

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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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וְלָ֣מָּה מֵ֭רֶחֶם הֹצֵאתָ֑נִי אֶ֝גְוַ֗ע וְעַ֣יִן לֹא־תִרְאֵֽנִי׃

[Job 10:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.18/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Wherefore then hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb?**
2. [Would that I had perished, and no eye had seen me!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.253/)

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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:252` 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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