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title: Job 17:4 (JPS 1917) — For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them. Who acts: Thou. Job 17:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 17:4 · JPS 1917

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For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** hide, not exalt · **To what, where:** heart, understanding, hands

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This is Job 17:4 · 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), 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:430
# text = For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
3	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hid	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	exalt	exalt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present · perfect | Thou | hands's heart |  | understanding |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent heart=Patient from understanding=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **not** **exalt** | shall | Thou | hands *= hand* |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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כִּֽי־לִ֭בָּם צָפַ֣נְתָּ מִּשָּׂ֑כֶלעַל־כֵּ֝֗ן לֹ֣א תְרֹמֵֽם׃

[Job 17:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.4/)

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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:430` 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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