--- title: Job 21:15 (JPS 1917) — What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? · tree and pragmatics description: What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? Who acts: Almighty, we. Job 21:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.542/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/) / [chapter 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/21/) / [21:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.15/) / JPS 1 # Job 21:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? **Who acts:** Almighty, we · **What happens:** be, serve · **To what, where:** God This is Job 21:15 · 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 (Almighty, we), 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:542 # text = What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Almighty Almighty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 10 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Almighty | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **serve** | should | we | God | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | 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} מַה־שַׁדַּ֥י כִּֽי־נַֽעַבְדֶ֑נּוּ וּמַה־נּ֝וֹעִ֗יל כִּ֣י נִפְגַּע־בּֽוֹ׃ [Job 21:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.15/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?** 2. [And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?' —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.543/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:542` 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. - ← previous: [Job 21:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.541/) - next →: [Job 21:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.543/) - ↑ back to [Job 21:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.15/)