--- title: Job 11:7 (JPS 1917) — Canst thou attain unto the purpose of the Almighty? · tree and pragmatics description: Canst thou attain unto the purpose of the Almighty? Who acts: thou, Almighty. Job 11:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.268/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/) / [chapter 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/11/) / [11:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.7/) / JPS 2 # Job 11:7 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Canst thou attain unto the purpose of the Almighty? **Who acts:** thou, Almighty · **What happens:** attain, purpose This is Job 11:7 · 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 (thou, Almighty), 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:268 # text = Canst thou attain unto the purpose of the Almighty? 1 Canst can AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 3 attain attain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Almighty almighty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attain** | can | thou | | | | | unto the purpose of the Almighty | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **purpose** | | the Almighty | | | | | | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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} הַחֵ֣קֶר אֱל֣וֹהַ תִּמְצָ֑א אִ֤ם עַד־תַּכְלִ֖ית שַׁדַּ֣י תִּמְצָֽא׃ [Job 11:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.7/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Canst thou find out the deep things of God?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.267/) 2. **Canst thou attain unto the purpose of the Almighty?** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:268` 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. - ← previous: [Job 11:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.267/) - next →: [Job 11:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.269/) - ↑ back to [Job 11:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.7/)