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title: Job 18:4 (JPS 1917) — Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsake… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Who acts: thine. Job 18:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 18:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee?

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**Who acts:** thine · **What happens:** tear, forsake, anger · **To what, where:** thyself, anger, earth

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This is Job 18:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (thine), 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:448
# text = Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee?
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obl	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tearest	tear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	forsaken	forsake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obl	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- 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 | **tear** | present |  | thyself |  | thine anger |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location thyself=Theme |
| 2 | **forsake** | shall · passive |  | the earth |  |  |  | for thee; Thou *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **anger** |  | thine |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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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טֹֽרֵ֥ף נַפְשׁ֗וֹ בְּאַ֫פּ֥וֹ הַ֭לְמַעַנְךָ תֵּעָ֣זַב אָ֑רֶץ וְיֶעְתַּק־צ֝֗וּר מִמְּקֹמֽוֹ׃

[Job 18:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.4/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee?**
2. [Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.449/)

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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:448` 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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