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title: Job 3:24 (JPS 1917) — For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured… · tree and pragmatics
description: For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water. Who acts: sighing, my. Job 3:24 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 3:24 · JPS 1917

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For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.

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**Who acts:** sighing, my · **What happens:** come, pour out, roar · **To what, where:** roarings

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This is Job 3:24 · 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 (sighing, 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:62
# text = For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sighing	sighing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cometh	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	roarings	roaring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | my sighing |  |  |  |  | instead my food | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pour out** | present · passive |  | my roarings |  |  |  | like water | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **roar** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom roaring «event 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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כִּֽי־לִפְנֵ֣י לַ֭חְמִי אַנְחָתִ֣י תָבֹ֑א וַֽיִּתְּכ֥וּ כַ֝מַּ֗יִם שַׁאֲגֹתָֽי׃

[Job 3:24: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.24/)

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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:62` 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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