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title: Job 20:20 (JPS 1917) — Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered no… · tree and pragmatics
description: Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered nought to escape, Who acts: head. Job 20:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 20:20 · JPS 1917

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Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered nought to escape,

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**Who acts:** head · **What happens:** know, suffer, escape · **To what, where:** quietness, nought, greed

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This is Job 20:20 · 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 (head), 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:517
# text = Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered nought to escape,
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	quietness	quietness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	greed	greed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	nought	nought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **know** | past | head | no quietness |  |  |  | within viper | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer quietness=Stimulus |
| 2 | **suffer** | past | head | nought |  | head's greed |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nought=Stimulus |
| 3 | **escape** | to-infinitive | head *not said here* | nought *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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כִּ֤י ׀ לֹא־יָדַ֣ע שָׁלֵ֣ו בְּבִטְנ֑וֹ בַּ֝חֲמוּד֗וֹ לֹ֣א יְמַלֵּֽט׃

[Job 20:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.20/)

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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:517` 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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