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title: Job 3:7 (JPS 1917) — Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein. · tree and pragmatics
description: Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein. Who acts: you, joyful voice. Job 3:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 3:7 · JPS 1917

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Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein.

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**Who acts:** you, joyful voice · **What happens:** let, be, come

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This is Job 3:7 · 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, joyful voice), 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:43
# text = Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein.
1	Lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	desolate	desolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
11	joyful	joyful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | desolate *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | no joyful voice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | infinitive | no joyful voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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הִנֵּ֤ה הַלַּ֣יְלָה הַ֭הוּא יְהִ֣י גַלְמ֑וּד אַל־תָּבֹ֖א רְנָנָ֣ה בֽוֹ׃

[Job 3:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.7/)

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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:43` 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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