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title: Job 3:6 (JPS 1917) — As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it; let it not rejo… · tree and pragmatics
description: As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. Who acts: you, thick darkness, darkness. Job 3:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 3:6 · JPS 1917

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As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

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**Who acts:** you, thick darkness, darkness · **What happens:** let, seize, not rejoice, not come · **To what, where:** thick darkness, darkness, number

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This is Job 3:6 · 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 (you, thick darkness, darkness), 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:42
# text = As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | thick darkness |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seize** | infinitive | thick darkness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon darkness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | darkness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **rejoice** | infinitive | darkness *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | darkness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **come** | infinitive | darkness *not said here* |  |  | the number of the months |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into number=Initial\_Location |

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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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הַלַּ֥יְלָה הַהוּא֮ יִקָּחֵ֪ה֫וּ אֹ֥פֶל אַל־יִ֭חַדְּ בִּימֵ֣י שָׁנָ֑ה בְּמִסְפַּ֥ר יְ֝רָחִ֗ים אַל־יָבֹֽא׃

[Job 3:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.6/)

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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:42` 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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