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title: Job 15:2 (JPS 1917) — Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, and fill his bel… · tree and pragmatics
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# Job 15:2 · JPS 1917

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Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

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**Who acts:** wise man · **What happens:** make, fill · **To what, where:** answer, belly

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This is Job 15:2 · 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 (wise 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:365
# text = Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
1	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	windy	windy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **make** | should | a wise man | answer |  |  |  | with windy knowledge | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product |
| 2 | **fill** | infinitive | a wise man *not said here* | man's belly |  |  |  | with the east wind | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent belly=Patient with wind=Instrument |

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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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הֶֽחָכָ֗ם יַעֲנֶ֥ה דַֽעַת־ר֑וּחַ וִֽימַלֵּ֖א קָדִ֣ים בִּטְנֽוֹ׃

[Job 15:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.2/)

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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:365` 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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