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title: Job 16:19 (JPS 1917) — Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven, and He that testifieth of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven, and He that testifieth of me is on high. Who acts: Witness, cry. Job 16:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 16:19 · JPS 1917

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Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven, and He that testifieth of me is on high.

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**Who acts:** Witness, cry · **What happens:** be, testify · **To what, where:** heaven

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This is Job 16:19 · 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 (Witness, cry), 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:423
# text = Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven, and He that testifieth of me is on high.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	testifieth	testify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	high	high	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **is** | present | my Witness |  |  | heaven | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **testify** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  | of me | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | cry |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |

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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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גַּם־עַ֭תָּה הִנֵּה־בַשָּׁמַ֣יִם עֵדִ֑י וְ֝שָׂהֲדִ֗י בַּמְּרוֹמִֽים׃

[Job 16:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.19/)

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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:423` 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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