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title: Job 12:9 (JPS 1917) — Who knoweth not among all these, that the hand of the LORD hath wrou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who knoweth not among all these, that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? Who acts: hand. Job 12:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 12:9 · JPS 1917

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Who knoweth not among all these, that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?

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**Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** not know, wrought · **To what, where:** this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 12:9 · 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 (hand), 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:291
# text = Who knoweth not among all these, that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knoweth	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
6	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obj	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1, form=wh

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present |  |  |  |  |  | among these | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wrought** | present · perfect | the hand of the LORD | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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מִ֭י לֹא־יָדַ֣ע בְּכָל־אֵ֑לֶּה כִּ֥י יַד־יְ֝הוָה עָ֣שְׂתָה זֹּֽאת׃

[Job 12:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.9/)

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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:291` 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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