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title: Job 22:12 (JPS 1917) — And behold the topmost of the stars, how high they are! · tree and pragmatics
description: And behold the topmost of the stars, how high they are! Who acts: you, stars. Job 22:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 22:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And behold the topmost of the stars, how high they are!

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**Who acts:** you, stars · **What happens:** behold, be · **To what, where:** topmost

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This is Job 22:12 · 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 (you, stars), 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:581
# text = And behold the topmost of the stars, how high they are!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	topmost	topmost	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=excl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | imperative | you *not said here* | the topmost of the stars |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer topmost=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | stars *= star* |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |

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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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הֲ‍ֽלֹא־אֱ֭לוֹהַּ גֹּ֣בַהּ שָׁמָ֑יִם וּרְאֵ֤ה רֹ֖אשׁכּוֹכָבִ֣ים כִּי־רָֽמּוּ׃

[Job 22:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Is not God in the height of heaven?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.580/)
2. **And behold the topmost of the stars, how high they are!**

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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:581` 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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