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title: Job 14:7 (JPS 1917) — For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout… · tree and pragmatics
description: For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Who acts: hope, tender branch, tree. Job 14:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 14:7 · JPS 1917

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For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

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**Who acts:** hope, tender branch, tree · **What happens:** be, cut down, sprout, not cease, hope · **To what, where:** hope

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This is Job 14:7 · 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 (hope, tender branch, tree), 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:347
# text = For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	sprout	sprout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- 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 | **be** | present | hope of a tree |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cut down** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | hope |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **sprout** | future | hope |  |  |  | again |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 4 | **not** **cease** | future | the tender branch |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **hope** |  | a tree |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling 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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כִּ֤י יֵ֥שׁ לָעֵ֗ץ תִּ֫קְוָ֥ה אִֽם־יִ֭כָּרֵת וְע֣וֹד יַחֲלִ֑יף וְ֝יֹֽנַקְתּ֗וֹ לֹ֣א תֶחְדָּֽל׃

[Job 14:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.7/)

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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:347` 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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