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title: Job 17:3 (JPS 1917) — Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there… · tree and pragmatics
description: Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me? Who acts: you. Job 17:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 17:3 · JPS 1917

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Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, be, strike · **To what, where:** pledge, surety, hands

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This is Job 17:3 · 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), 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:429
# text = Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me?
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pledge	pledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	7	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	else	else	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	_	15	expl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | a pledge |  |  | now |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pledge=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | you *not said here* | surety |  |  |  | for me; with Thyself | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **strike** | future |  | hands |  |  |  | with me | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with i=Instrument |

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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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שִֽׂימָה־נָּ֭א עָרְבֵ֣נִי עִמָּ֑ךְ מִֽי ה֝֗וּא לְיָדִ֥י יִתָּקֵֽעַ׃

[Job 17:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.3/)

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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:429` 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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