--- title: Job 11:20 (JPS 1917) — But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to… · tree and pragmatics description: But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee, and their hope shall be the drooping of the soul. Who acts: eyes, hope. 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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 (eyes, hope), 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:282 # text = But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee, and their hope shall be the drooping of the soul. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 wicked wicked NOUN NN Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 shall shall AUX MD _ 8 aux _ _ 8 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD _ 13 aux _ _ 13 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 flee flee VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD _ 25 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 drooping droop NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fail** | shall | the eyes of the wicked | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | shall | eyes *= eye* | no way | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | | 3 | **flee** | to-infinitive | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | no way *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | shall | eyes's hope | the drooping | | | | of the soul | tree rules | | 5 | **hope** | | eyes *= eye* | | | | | | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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} וְעֵינֵ֥י רְשָׁעִ֗ים תִּ֫כְלֶ֥ינָה וּ֭מָנוֹס אָבַ֣ד מִנְהֶ֑ם וְ֝תִקְוָתָ֗ם מַֽפַּח־נָֽפֶשׁ׃פ [Job 11:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.20/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:282` 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 11:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.281/) - next →: [Job 12:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.283/) - ↑ back to [Job 11:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.20/)