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title: Job 25:6 (JPS 1917) — How much less man, that is a worm! and the son of man, that is a mag… · tree and pragmatics
description: How much less man, that is a worm! and the son of man, that is a maggot! Who acts: man, son. Job 25:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 25:6 · JPS 1917

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How much less man, that is a worm! and the son of man, that is a maggot!

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**Who acts:** man, son · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** worm, maggot

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This is Job 25:6 · 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 (man, son), 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:653
# text = How much less man, that is a worm! and the son of man, that is a maggot!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	maggot	maggot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | man and the son of man | a worm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the son of man | a maggot |  |  |  |  | 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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אַ֭ף כִּֽי־אֱנ֣וֹשׁ רִמָּ֑ה וּבֶן־אָ֝דָ֗ם תּוֹלֵעָֽה׃פ

[Job 25:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.25.6/)

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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:653` 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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