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title: Job 11:11 (JPS 1917) — For He knoweth base men; and when He seeth iniquity, will He not the… · tree and pragmatics
description: For He knoweth base men; and when He seeth iniquity, will He not then consider it? Who acts: iniquity. Job 11:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 11:11 · JPS 1917

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For He knoweth base men; and when He seeth iniquity, will He not then consider it?

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**Who acts:** iniquity · **What happens:** know, see, not consider · **To what, where:** base men, iniquity, measure

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This is Job 11:11 · 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 (iniquity), 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:273
# text = For He knoweth base men; and when He seeth iniquity, will He not then consider it?
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knoweth	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	seeth	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
11	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=other, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | iniquity | base men |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | present | iniquity | iniquity |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer iniquity=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **consider** | future | iniquity | measure |  |  | then |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |

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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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כִּי־ה֭וּא יָדַ֣ע מְתֵי־שָׁ֑וְא וַיַּרְא־אָ֝֗וֶן וְלֹ֣א יִתְבּוֹנָֽן׃

[Job 11:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.11/)

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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:273` 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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