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title: Job 22:17 (JPS 1917) — Who said unto God: 'Depart from us'; and what could the Almighty do… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who said unto God: 'Depart from us'; and what could the Almighty do unto them? Who acts: Almighty. Job 22:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 22:17 · JPS 1917

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Who said unto God: 'Depart from us'; and what could the Almighty do unto them?

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**Who acts:** Almighty · **What happens:** say, depart, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 22:17 · 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 (Almighty), 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:587
# text = Who said unto God: 'Depart from us'; and what could the Almighty do unto them?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Almighty	almighty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | unto God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **depart** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | from us | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from we=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **do** | could | the Almighty |  |  |  |  | unto ways *= way* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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הָאֹמְרִ֣ים לָ֭אֵל ס֣וּר מִמֶּ֑נּוּ וּמַה־יִּפְעַ֖ל שַׁדַּ֣י לָֽמוֹ׃

[Job 22:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.17/)

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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:587` 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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