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title: Job 2:9 (JPS 1917) — Then said his wife unto him: 'Dost thou still hold fast thine integr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said his wife unto him: 'Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? blaspheme God, and die.' Who acts: wife, thou. Job 2:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 2:9 · JPS 1917

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Then said his wife unto him: 'Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? blaspheme God, and die.'

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**Who acts:** wife, thou · **What happens:** say, hold, blaspheme, die · **To what, where:** integrity, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 2:9 · 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 (wife, thou), 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:31
# text = Then said his wife unto him: 'Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? blaspheme God, and die.'
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Dost	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
13	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	integrity	integrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
17	blaspheme	blaspheme	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
18	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: disagree
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=disagree, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Satan's wife |  |  |  | then | unto Satan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hold** | present · do-support | thou | thine integrity |  |  | still | fast *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent integrity=Theme |
| 3 | **blaspheme** | infinitive |  | God |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |
| 4 | **die** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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וַתֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ עֹדְךָ֖ מַחֲזִ֣יק בְּתֻמָּתֶ֑ךָ בָּרֵ֥ךְ אֱלֹהִ֖ים וָמֻֽת׃

[Job 2:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.2.9/)

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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:31` 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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