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title: Job 23:12 (JPS 1917) — I have not gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have treasu… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have not gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured up the words of His mouth more than my necessary food. Who acts: I. Job 23:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 23:12 · JPS 1917

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I have not gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured up the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not go back, treasure up, command, word · **To what, where:** commandment, words, lips, mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 23:12 · 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 (I), 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:613
# text = I have not gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured up the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	treasured	treasure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go back** | present · perfect | I |  |  | the commandment of hand's lips |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **treasure up** | present · perfect | I | the words of hand's mouth |  |  |  | than my necessary food | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 3 | **command** |  |  | hand's lips |  |  |  |  | nom commandment «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | hand's mouth |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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מִצְוַ֣ת שְׂ֭פָתָיו וְלֹ֣א אָמִ֑ישׁ מֵ֝חֻקִּ֗י צָפַ֥נְתִּי אִמְרֵי־פִֽיו׃

[Job 23:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.23.12/)

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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:613` 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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