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title: Job 23:6 (JPS 1917) — Would He contend with me in His great power? · tree and pragmatics
description: Would He contend with me in His great power? Who acts: hand. Job 23:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 23:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Would He contend with me in His great power?

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**Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** contend · **To what, where:** great power

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This is Job 23:6 · 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 (hand), 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:606
# text = Would He contend with me in His great power?
1	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	contend	contend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: express
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=express

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contend** | would | hand |  |  | hand's great power |  | with me | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-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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הַבְּרָב־כֹּ֭חַיָרִ֣יב עִמָּדִ֑י לֹ֥א אַךְ־ה֝֗וּא יָשִׂ֥ם בִּֽי׃

[Job 23:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.23.6/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Would He contend with me in His great power?**
2. [Nay; but He would give heed unto me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.607/)

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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:606` 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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