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title: Job 15:28 (JPS 1917) — And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man would i… · tree and pragmatics
description: And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man would inhabit, which were ready to become heaps. Who acts: man, houses. Job 15:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 15:28 · JPS 1917

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And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man would inhabit, which were ready to become heaps.

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**Who acts:** man, houses · **What happens:** dwell, inhabit, be, become · **To what, where:** desolate cities, houses, heaps

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This is Job 15:28 · 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 (man, houses), 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:396
# text = And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man would inhabit, which were ready to become heaps.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	desolate	desolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	inhabit	inhabit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **dwell** | present · perfect | man |  |  | desolate cities |  | in houses | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location |
| 2 | **inhabit** | would | no man | houses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | houses |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **become** | to-infinitive | houses *not said here* | heaps |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient heap=Result |

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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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וַיִּשְׁכּ֤וֹן ׀ עָ֘רִ֤ים נִכְחָד֗וֹת בָּ֭תִּים לֹא־יֵ֣שְׁבוּ לָ֑מוֹ אֲשֶׁ֖ר הִתְעַתְּד֣וּ לְגַלִּֽים׃

[Job 15:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.28/)

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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:396` 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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