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title: Job 10:20 (JPS 1917) — Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, · tree and pragmatics
description: Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Who acts: you, I. Job 10:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 10:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** cease, let, take · **To what, where:** me, comfort

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This is Job 10:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (you, I), 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:256
# text = Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
1	Cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
13	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	little	little	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | may | I | comfort |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme |

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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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הֲלֹא־מְעַ֣ט יָמַ֣י וַחֲדָ֑ל וְשִׁ֥ית מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי וְאַבְלִ֥יגָה מְּעָֽט׃

[Job 10:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Are not my days few?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.255/)
2. **Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,**

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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:256` 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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