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title: Job 19:21 (JPS 1917) — Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand… · tree and pragmatics
description: Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. Who acts: you, hand. Job 19:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 19:21 · JPS 1917

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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

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**Who acts:** you, hand · **What happens:** have, touch · **To what, where:** pity, me

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This is Job 19:21 · 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, hand), 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:487
# text = Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
1	Have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
12	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	vocative	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | imperative | you *not said here* | pity |  |  |  | upon me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | infinitive | you *not said here* | pity |  |  |  | upon me; my friends  ye *vocative* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 3 | **touch** | present · perfect | the hand of God | me |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-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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חָנֻּ֬נִי חָנֻּ֣נִי אַתֶּ֣ם רֵעָ֑י כִּ֥י יַד־אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַּ נָ֣גְעָה בִּֽי׃

[Job 19:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.21/)

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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:487` 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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