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title: Job 14:8 (JPS 1917) — Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof… · tree and pragmatics
description: Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Who acts: root, stock. Job 14:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 14:8 · JPS 1917

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Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

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**Who acts:** root, stock · **What happens:** wax, die · **To what, where:** earth

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This is Job 14:8 · 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 (root, stock), 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:348
# text = Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	wax	wax	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **wax** | present | the root |  |  | the earth |  | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in earth=Location |
| 2 | **die** | present | the stock |  |  |  |  | in the ground | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in ground=Attribute |

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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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אִם־יַזְקִ֣ין בָּאָ֣רֶץ שָׁרְשׁ֑וֹ וּ֝בֶעָפָ֗ר יָמ֥וּת גִּזְעֽוֹ׃

[Job 14:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.8/)

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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:348` 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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