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title: Job 21:34 (JPS 1917) — How then comfort ye me in vain? · tree and pragmatics
description: How then comfort ye me in vain? Who acts: ye. Job 21:34 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 21:34 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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How then comfort ye me in vain?

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** comfort · **To what, where:** me, vain

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This is Job 21:34 · 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 (ye), 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:564
# text = How then comfort ye me in vain?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	comfort	comfort	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	vain	vain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comfort** | present | ye | me |  | vain | then |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |

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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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וְ֭אֵיךְ תְּנַחֲמ֣וּנִי הָ֑בֶל וּ֝תְשֽׁוּבֹתֵיכֶ֗ם נִשְׁאַר־מָֽעַל׃ס

[Job 21:34: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.21.34/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **How then comfort ye me in vain?**
2. [And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.565/)

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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:564` 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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