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title: Job 16:20 (JPS 1917) — Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, mine eye poureth out tears… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, mine eye poureth out tears unto God; Who acts: inward thoughts, eye, Mine. Job 16:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 16:20 · JPS 1917

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Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, mine eye poureth out tears unto God;

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**Who acts:** inward thoughts, eye, Mine · **What happens:** be, pour out, think · **To what, where:** intercessors, tears

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This is Job 16:20 · 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 (inward thoughts, eye, Mine), 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:424
# text = Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, mine eye poureth out tears unto God;
1	Mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	inward	inward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	intercessors	intercessor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	poureth	pour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | Mine inward thoughts | my intercessors |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pour out** | present | mine eye | tears |  |  |  | unto God | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient |
| 3 | **think** |  | Mine |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition 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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מְלִיצַ֥י רֵעָ֑י אֶל־אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַ דָּלְפָ֥ה עֵינִֽי׃

[Job 16:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.20/)

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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:424` 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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