--- title: Job 13:19 (JPS 1917) — Who is he that will contend with me? · tree and pragmatics description: Who is he that will contend with me? Who acts: hypocrite. Job 13:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.328/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/) / [chapter 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/13/) / [13:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.19/) / JPS 1 # Job 13:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 Who is he that will contend with me? **Who acts:** hypocrite · **What happens:** be, contend This is Job 13:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (hypocrite), 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:328 # text = Who is he that will contend with me? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 contend contend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | hypocrite | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **contend** | future | | | | | | with me | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-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} מִי־ה֭וּא יָרִ֣יב עִמָּדִ֑י כִּֽי־עַתָּ֖ה אַחֲרִ֣ישׁ וְאֶגְוָֽע׃ [Job 13:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.19/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **Who is he that will contend with me?** 2. [For then would I hold my peace and die.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.329/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:328` 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 13:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.327/) - next →: [Job 13:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.329/) - ↑ back to [Job 13:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.19/)