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title: Job 16:6 (JPS 1917) — Though I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what… · tree and pragmatics
description: Though I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased? Who acts: I, my. Job 16:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 16:6 · JPS 1917

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Though I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased?

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** speak, not assuage, forbear, ease, pain · **To what, where:** pain, I · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 16:6 · 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, my), 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:410
# text = Though I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased?
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	assuaged	assuage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	forbear	forbear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obl	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	eased	ease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **assuage** | present · passive |  | my pain |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **forbear** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ease** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **pain** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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אִֽם־אֲ֭דַבְּרָה לֹא־יֵחָשֵׂ֣ךְ כְּאֵבִ֑י וְ֝אַחְדְּלָ֗ה מַה־מִנִּ֥י יַהֲלֹֽךְ׃

[Job 16:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.6/)

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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:410` 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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