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title: Job 12:3 (JPS 1917) — But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; y… · tree and pragmatics
description: But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; yea, who knoweth not such things as these? Who acts: I. Job 12:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 12:3 · JPS 1917

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But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, not be, not know · **To what, where:** understanding, you, such things

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This is Job 12:3 · 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 (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:285
# text = But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	cc	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	inferior	inferior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
20	knoweth	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	nmod	_	_
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: none
- 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 | **have** | present | I | understanding |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | I |  | you |  |  | inferior *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **know** | present |  | such things |  |  |  | as these | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus as this=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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גַּם־לִ֤י לֵבָ֨ב ׀ כְּֽמוֹכֶ֗ם לֹא־נֹפֵ֣ל אָנֹכִ֣י מִכֶּ֑ם וְאֶת־מִי־אֵ֥ין כְּמוֹ־אֵֽלֶּה׃

[Job 12:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.3/)

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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:285` 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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