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title: Job 3:3 (JPS 1917) — Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.' Who acts: you. Job 3:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 3:3 · JPS 1917

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Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.'

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** let, perish, bear, say, bring · **To what, where:** I, mouth, man child · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 3:3 · 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 (you), 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:39
# text = Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.'
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
19	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
25	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perish** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bear** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | mouth |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **bring** | present · passive |  | a man child |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |

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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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יֹ֣אבַד י֭וֹםאִוָּ֣לֶד בּ֑וֹ וְהַלַּ֥יְלָה אָ֝מַ֗ר הֹ֣רָה גָֽבֶר׃

[Job 3:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.3/)

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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:39` 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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