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title: Job 15:31 (JPS 1917) — Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; for vanity shall be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; for vanity shall be his recompense. Who acts: man, vanity. Job 15:31 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 15:31 · JPS 1917

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Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; for vanity shall be his recompense.

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**Who acts:** man, vanity · **What happens:** let, not trust, deceive, be · **To what, where:** vanity, man, recompense

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This is Job 15:31 · 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, vanity), 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:399
# text = Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; for vanity shall be his recompense.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	deceiving	deceive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	recompense	recompense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **trust** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  | vanity |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **deceive** | gerund | man *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | shall | vanity | man's recompense |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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אַל־יַאֲמֵ֣ן בַּשָּׁ֣יו נִתְעָ֑ה כִּי־שָׁ֝֗וְא תִּהְיֶ֥ה תְמוּרָתֽוֹ׃

[Job 15:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.31/)

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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:399` 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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