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title: Job 16:18 (JPS 1917) — O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no resting-pla… · tree and pragmatics
description: O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no resting-place. Who acts: thou, cry, my. Job 16:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 16:18 · JPS 1917

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O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no resting-place.

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**Who acts:** thou, cry, my · **What happens:** not cover, let, have, cry · **To what, where:** blood, resting place

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This is Job 16:18 · 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 (thou, cry, 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:422
# text = O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no resting-place.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
16	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cover** | infinitive | thou | my blood |  |  |  | earth *vocative* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme blood=Destination |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | my cry | no resting place |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 4 | **cry** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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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אֶ֭רֶץ אַל־תְּכַסִּ֣י דָמִ֑י וְֽאַל־יְהִ֥י מָ֝ק֗וֹם לְזַעֲקָתִֽי׃

[Job 16:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.18/)

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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:422` 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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