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title: Job 24:12 (JPS 1917) — From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded… · tree and pragmatics
description: From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; yet God imputeth it not for unseemliness. Who acts: men, soul, God. Job 24:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 24:12 · JPS 1917

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From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; yet God imputeth it not for unseemliness.

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**Who acts:** men, soul, God · **What happens:** groan, cry out, not impute · **To what, where:** populous city, soul

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This is Job 24:12 · 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 (men, soul, God), 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:632
# text = From out of the populous city men groan, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; yet God imputeth it not for unseemliness.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	populous	populous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	groan	groan	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wounded	wounded	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	crieth	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	imputeth	impute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	unseemliness	unseemliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **groan** | present | men |  |  | the populous city |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | present | the soul of the wounded |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **impute** | present | God | soul |  |  |  | for unseemliness | tree rules |

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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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מֵ֘עִ֤יר מְתִ֨ים ׀ יִנְאָ֗קוּ וְנֶֽפֶשׁ־חֲלָלִ֥ים תְּשַׁוֵּ֑עַ וֶ֝אֱל֗וֹהַּ לֹא־יָשִׂ֥ים תִּפְלָֽה׃

[Job 24:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.12/)

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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:632` 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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