--- title: Job 21:31 (JPS 1917) — And who shall repay him what he hath done? · tree and pragmatics description: And who shall repay him what he hath done? Who acts: man. Job 21:31 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.561/) [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/) / [21:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.31/) / JPS 2 # Job 21:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 And who shall repay him what he hath done? **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** repay, do · **To what, where:** man This is Job 21:31 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (man), 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:561 # text = And who shall repay him what he hath done? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 repay repay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=ask, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **repay** | shall | | | man | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | present · perfect | man | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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} מִֽי־יַגִּ֣יד עַל־פָּנָ֣יו דַּרְכּ֑וֹ וְהֽוּא־עָ֝שָׂ֗ה מִ֣י יְשַׁלֶּם־לֽוֹ׃ [Job 21:31: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.31/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [But who shall declare his way to his face?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.560/) 2. **And who shall repay him what he hath done?** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:561` 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 21:31 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.560/) - next →: [Job 21:32 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.562/) - ↑ back to [Job 21:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.31/)