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title: Job 14:12 (JPS 1917) — So man lieth down and riseth not; till the heavens be no more, they… · tree and pragmatics
description: So man lieth down and riseth not; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. Who acts: man, heavens. Job 14:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 14:12 · JPS 1917

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So man lieth down and riseth not; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

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**Who acts:** man, heavens · **What happens:** lie down, not rise, not be, not awake, rouse, sleep · **To what, where:** sleep

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This is Job 14:12 · 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 (man, heavens), 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:352
# text = So man lieth down and riseth not; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lieth	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	riseth	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
9	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	no	no	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	awake	awake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	roused	rouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **lie down** | present | man |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **rise** | present | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | infinitive | the heavens |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **awake** | shall | heavens *= heaven* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rouse** | infinitive · passive | heavens *= heaven* *not said here* |  |  | heavens's sleep |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **sleep** |  | heavens *= heaven* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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וְאִ֥ישׁ שָׁכַ֗ב וְֽלֹא־יָ֫ק֥וּם עַד־בִּלְתִּ֣י שָׁ֭מַיִם לֹ֣א יָקִ֑יצוּ וְלֹֽא־יֵ֝עֹ֗רוּ מִשְּׁנָתָֽם׃

[Job 14:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.12/)

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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:352` 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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