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title: Job 21:2 (JPS 1917) — Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations. · tree and pragmatics
description: Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations. Who acts: you, this, my. Job 21:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 21:2 · JPS 1917

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Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations.

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**Who acts:** you, this, my · **What happens:** hear, let, be, speak · **To what, where:** speech, this, consolations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 21:2 · 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, this, 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:528
# text = Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations.
1	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	diligently	diligently	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	consolations	consolation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	xcomp	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | my speech |  |  |  | diligently *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | this *not said here* | your consolations |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «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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שִׁמְע֣וּ שָׁ֭מוֹעַ מִלָּתִ֑י וּתְהִי־זֹ֝֗את תַּנְח֥וּמֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃

[Job 21:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.2/)

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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:528` 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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