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title: Job 2:10 (JPS 1917) — What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not rec… · tree and pragmatics
description: What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?' For all this did not Job sin with his lips. Who acts: we, Job. Job 2:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 2:10 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?' For all this did not Job sin with his lips.

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**Who acts:** we, Job · **What happens:** receive, not receive, not sin · **To what, where:** good, hand, evil

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This is Job 2:10 · 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 (we, Job), 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:33
# text = What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?' For all this did not Job sin with his lips.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	good	good	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
21	For	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	obl	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	Job	Job	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sin	sin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | shall | we | good |  | the hand of God |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent what=Theme good=Location |
| 2 | **not** **receive** | shall | we | evil |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **sin** | past · do-support | Job |  |  |  |  | for this; with Job's lips | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלֶ֗יהָ כְּדַבֵּ֞ר אַחַ֤ת הַנְּבָלוֹת֙ תְּדַבֵּ֔רִי גַּ֣ם אֶת־הַטּ֗וֹב נְקַבֵּל֙ מֵאֵ֣ת הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים וְאֶת־הָרָ֖ע לֹ֣א נְקַבֵּ֑ל בְּכָל־זֹ֛את לֹא־חָטָ֥א אִיּ֖וֹב בִּשְׂפָתָֽיו׃פ

[Job 2:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.2.10/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [But he said unto her: 'Thou speakest as one of the impious women speaketh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.32/)
2. **What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?' For all this did not Job sin with his lips.**

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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:33` 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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