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title: Job 19:23 (JPS 1917) — Oh that my words were now written! · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh that my words were now written! Who acts: my. Job 19:23 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 19:23 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Oh that my words were now written!

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**Who acts:** my · **What happens:** write, word · **To what, where:** words

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This is Job 19:23 · 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 (my), 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:489
# text = Oh that my words were now written!
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none, form=excl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past · passive |  | my words |  |  | now |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **word** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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מִֽי־יִתֵּ֣ן אֵ֭פוֹ וְיִכָּתְב֣וּן מִלָּ֑י מִֽי־יִתֵּ֖ן בַּסֵּ֣פֶר וְיֻחָֽקוּ׃

[Job 19:23: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.23/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Oh that my words were now written!**
2. [Oh that they were inscribed in a book!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.490/)

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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:489` 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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