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title: Job 14:15 (JPS 1917) — Thou wouldest call, and I would answer Thee; Thou wouldest have a de… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou wouldest call, and I would answer Thee; Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of Thy hands. Who acts: Thou, I, hands. Job 14:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 14:15 · JPS 1917

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Thou wouldest call, and I would answer Thee; Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of Thy hands.

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**Who acts:** Thou, I, hands · **What happens:** call, answer, have, work · **To what, where:** Thee, desire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 14:15 · 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 (Thou, I, hands), 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:356
# text = Thou wouldest call, and I would answer Thee; Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of Thy hands.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
2	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	wouldest	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | would | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | would | I | Thee |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | would | Thou | a desire |  |  |  | to the work of Thy hands | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient |
| 4 | **work** |  | Thy hands |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act 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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תִּ֭קְרָא וְאָנֹכִ֣י אֶֽעֱנֶ֑ךָּ לְֽמַעֲשֵׂ֖ה יָדֶ֣יךָ תִכְסֹֽף׃

[Job 14:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.15/)

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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:356` 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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