--- title: Job 18:4 (JPS 1917) — Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? · tree and pragmatics description: Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? Job 18:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.449/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/) / [chapter 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/18/) / [18:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.4/) / JPS 2 # Job 18:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? **What happens:** remove · **To what, where:** rock This is Job 18:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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: 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:449 # text = Or shall the rock be removed out of its place? 1 Or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 removed remove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 out out ADV IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remove** | shall · passive | | the rock | | | | of rock's place | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme of place=Source | 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} 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/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.448/) 2. **Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:449` 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. - ← previous: [Job 18:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.448/) - next →: [Job 18:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.450/) - ↑ back to [Job 18:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.4/)