--- title: Job 13:19 (JPS 1917) — For then would I hold my peace and die. · tree and pragmatics description: For then would I hold my peace and die. Who acts: I, my. 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.329/) [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 2 # Job 13:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 For then would I hold my peace and die. **Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** hold, die, pacify · **To what, where:** peace This is Job 13:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (I, my), 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:329 # text = For then would I hold my peace and die. 1 For for ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: express - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | would | I | my peace | | | then | for *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | | 2 | **die** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **pacify** | | my | | | | | | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.328/) 2. **For then would I hold my peace and die.** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:329` 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 13:19 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.328/) - next →: [Job 13:20 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.330/) - ↑ back to [Job 13:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.19/)