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title: Job 21:20 (JPS 1917) — Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. Who acts: own eyes, God. Job 21:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 21:20 · JPS 1917

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Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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**Who acts:** own eyes, God · **What happens:** let, see, drink, destroy · **To what, where:** destruction, God

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This is Job 21:20 · 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 (own eyes, 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:548
# text = Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Almighty	almighty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: express
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive | God's own eyes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | God's own eyes *not said here* | God's destruction |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer destruction=Stimulus |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | God's own eyes *not said here* | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drink** | infinitive | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the wrath of the Almighty | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of wrath=Source |
| 5 | **destroy** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act 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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יִרְא֣וּ עֵינָ֣יו כִּיד֑וֹ וּמֵחֲמַ֖ת שַׁדַּ֣י יִשְׁתֶּֽה׃

[Job 21:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.20/)

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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:548` 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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