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title: Job 13:6 (JPS 1917) — Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. · tree and pragmatics
description: Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. Who acts: you, my, lips. Job 13:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 13:6 · JPS 1917

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Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

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**Who acts:** you, my, lips · **What happens:** hear, hearken, reason, plead · **To what, where:** reasoning

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This is Job 13:6 · 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 (you, my, lips), 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:313
# text = Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
1	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pleadings	pleading	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | my reasoning |  |  | now |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reasoning=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hearken** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the pleadings of my lips | tree rules |
| 3 | **reason** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom reasoning «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **plead** |  | my lips |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleading «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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שִׁמְעוּ־נָ֥א תוֹכַחְתִּ֑י וְרִב֖וֹת שְׂפָתַ֣י הַקְשִֽׁיבוּ׃

[Job 13:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.6/)

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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:313` 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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