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title: Job 21:19 (JPS 1917) — 'God layeth up his iniquity for his children!' — let Him recompense… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'God layeth up his iniquity for his children!' — let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it. Who acts: God. Job 21:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 21:19 · JPS 1917

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'God layeth up his iniquity for his children!' — let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** lay up, let, recompense, know · **To what, where:** iniquity, God

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This is Job 21:19 · 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 (God), 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:547
# text = 'God layeth up his iniquity for his children!' — let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	layeth	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	recompense	recompense	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: other
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=other

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay up** | present | God | God's iniquity |  |  |  | for God's children | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent iniquity=Result for child=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **recompense** | infinitive | God *not said here* | iniquity |  |  |  | unto God | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 4 | **know** | may | God | iniquity |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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אֱל֗וֹהַּ יִצְפֹּן־לְבָנָ֥יו אוֹנ֑וֹ יְשַׁלֵּ֖ם אֵלָ֣יו וְיֵדָֽע׃

[Job 21:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.19/)

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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:547` 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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