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title: Job 22:28 (JPS 1917) — Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee, and light shall shine upon thy ways. Who acts: Thou, light. Job 22:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 22:28 · JPS 1917

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Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee, and light shall shine upon thy ways.

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**Who acts:** Thou, light · **What happens:** decree, establish, shine · **To what, where:** thing, prayer, ways

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This is Job 22:28 · 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 (Thou, light), 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:598
# text = Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee, and light shall shine upon thy ways.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	decree	decree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decree** | shall | Thou | a thing |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | shall · passive |  | prayer |  |  |  | unto thee | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **shine** | shall | light |  |  | thy ways |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon way=Location |

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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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וְֽתִגְזַר־א֭וֹמֶרוְיָ֣קָם לָ֑ךְ וְעַל־דְּ֝רָכֶ֗יךָ נָ֣גַֽהּ אֽוֹר׃

[Job 22:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.28/)

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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:598` 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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