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title: Job 18:13 (JPS 1917) — It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the first-born of deat… · tree and pragmatics
description: It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members. Who acts: calamity, first born. Job 18:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 18:13 · JPS 1917

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It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.

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**Who acts:** calamity, first born · **What happens:** devour · **To what, where:** members

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This is Job 18:13 · 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 (calamity, first born), 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:458
# text = It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	born	born	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **devour** | shall | calamity | the members of light's body |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Patient |
| 2 | **devour** | shall | the first born of death | light's members |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Patient |

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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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יֹ֭אכַל בַּדֵּ֣י עוֹר֑וֹ יֹאכַ֥ל בַּ֝דָּ֗יו בְּכ֣וֹר מָֽוֶת׃

[Job 18:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.13/)

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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:458` 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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