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title: Job 3:13 (JPS 1917) — For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept… · tree and pragmatics
description: For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest — Who acts: I. Job 3:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 3:13 · JPS 1917

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For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest —

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** lie, be, sleep · **To what, where:** rest

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This is Job 3:13 · 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 (I), 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:51
# text = For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest —
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
23	—	—	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | should · perfect | I |  |  |  | now; still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sleep** | should · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | I |  |  | rest | then |  | tree rules |

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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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כִּֽי־עַ֭תָּה שָׁכַ֣בְתִּי וְאֶשְׁק֑וֹט יָ֝שַׁ֗נְתִּי אָ֤ז ׀ יָנ֬וּחַֽ לִֽי׃

[Job 3:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.13/)

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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:51` 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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