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title: Job 24:1 (JPS 1917) — And why do not they that know Him see His days? · tree and pragmatics
description: And why do not they that know Him see His days? Who acts: they. Job 24:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 24:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And why do not they that know Him see His days?

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**Who acts:** they · **What happens:** know, not see · **To what, where:** Almighty

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This is Job 24:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (they), 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:621
# text = And why do not they that know Him see His days?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present |  | Almighty |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **see** | present · do-support | they |  |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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מַדּ֗וּעַ מִ֭שַּׁדַּי לֹא־נִצְפְּנ֣וּ עִתִּ֑ים וְ֝יֹדְעָ֗יו לֹא־חָ֥זוּ יָמָֽיו׃

[Job 24:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Why are times not laid up by the Almighty?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.620/)
2. **And why do not they that know Him see His days?**

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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:621` 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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