--- title: Job 16:3 (JPS 1917) — Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? · tree and pragmatics description: Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? Who acts: thou. Job 16:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.407/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/) / [chapter 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/16/) / [16:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.3/) / JPS 2 # Job 16:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? **Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** provoke, answer · **To what, where:** thee This is Job 16:3 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (thou), 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:407 # text = Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? 1 Or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 3 provoketh provoke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 obj _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nsubj _ _ 7 answerest answer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **provoke** | present | | thee | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | thou | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} הֲקֵ֥ץ לְדִבְרֵי־ר֑וּחַ א֥וֹ מַה־יַּ֝מְרִֽיצְךָ֗ כִּ֣י תַעֲנֶֽה׃ [Job 16:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.3/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Shall windy words have an end?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.406/) 2. **Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:407` 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. - ← previous: [Job 16:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.406/) - next →: [Job 16:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.408/) - ↑ back to [Job 16:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.3/)