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title: Job 16:4 (JPS 1917) — I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul's stead, I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you. Who acts: I, soul. Job 16:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 16:4 · JPS 1917

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I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

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**Who acts:** I, soul · **What happens:** speak, be, join, shake · **To what, where:** stead, words, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 16:4 · 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 (I, soul), 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:408
# text = I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	stead	stead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
22	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | could | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | your soul |  |  | my soul's stead |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **join** | could | I | words |  |  |  | against you; together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 4 | **shake** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my head |  |  |  | at you | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme at you=Trajectory |

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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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גַּ֤ם ׀ אָנֹכִי֮ כָּכֶ֪ם אֲדַ֫בֵּ֥רָה ל֤וּ־יֵ֪שׁ נַפְשְׁכֶ֡ם תַּ֤חַת נַפְשִׁ֗י אַחְבִּ֣ירָה עֲלֵיכֶ֣ם בְּמִלִּ֑ים וְאָנִ֥יעָה עֲ֝לֵיכֶ֗ם בְּמ֣וֹ רֹאשִֽׁי׃

[Job 16:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.4/)

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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:408` 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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