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title: Job 23:2 (JPS 1917) — Even to-day is my complaint bitter; my hand is become heavy because… · tree and pragmatics
description: Even to-day is my complaint bitter; my hand is become heavy because of my groaning. Who acts: complaint, my. Job 23:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 23:2 · JPS 1917

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Even to-day is my complaint bitter; my hand is become heavy because of my groaning.

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**Who acts:** complaint, my · **What happens:** be, become, complain · **To what, where:** hand

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This is Job 23:2 · 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 (complaint, my), 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:602
# text = Even to-day is my complaint bitter; my hand is become heavy because of my groaning.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	groaning	groaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | my complaint |  |  |  | day | bitter *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | present · passive |  | my hand |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **complain** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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גַּם־הַ֭יּוֹם מְרִ֣י שִׂחִ֑י יָ֝דִ֗י כָּבְדָ֥ה עַל־אַנְחָתִֽי׃

[Job 23:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.23.2/)

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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:602` 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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