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title: Job 15:16 (JPS 1917) — How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh in… · tree and pragmatics
description: How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water! Who acts: one, man. Job 15:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 15:16 · JPS 1917

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How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!

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**Who acts:** one, man · **What happens:** be, drink · **To what, where:** iniquity

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This is Job 15:16 · 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 (one, 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:384
# text = How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	abominable	abominable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	impure	impure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	drinketh	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | one |  |  |  |  | abominable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drink** | present | man | iniquity |  |  |  | like water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Patient |

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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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אַ֭ף כִּֽי־נִתְעָ֥ב וְֽנֶאֱלָ֑ח אִישׁ־שֹׁתֶ֖ה כַמַּ֣יִם עַוְלָֽה׃

[Job 15:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.16/)

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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:384` 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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