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title: Job 14:19 (JPS 1917) — The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the d… · tree and pragmatics
description: The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man. Who acts: waters, overflowings, Thou, man. Job 14:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 14:19 · JPS 1917

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The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man.

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**Who acts:** waters, overflowings, Thou, man · **What happens:** wear, wash away, destroy, hope · **To what, where:** stones, dust, hope

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This is Job 14:19 · 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 (waters, overflowings, Thou, man), 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:360
# text = The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth; so Thou destroyest the hope of man.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	overflowings	overflowing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	wash	wash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	away	away	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
20	destroyest	destroy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | the waters | the stones |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent stone=Source |
| 2 | **wash away** | present | the overflowings | the dust of the earth |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Patient |
| 3 | **destroy** | present | Thou | the hope of man |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient |
| 4 | **hope** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | 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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אֲבָנִ֤ים ׀ שָׁ֥חֲקוּ מַ֗יִם תִּשְׁטֹֽף־סְפִיחֶ֥יהָ עֲפַר־אָ֑רֶץ וְתִקְוַ֖ת אֱנ֣וֹשׁ הֶאֱבַֽדְתָּ׃

[Job 14:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.14.19/)

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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:360` 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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