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title: Job 26:3 (JPS 1917) — How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and plentifully de… · tree and pragmatics
description: How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! Who acts: thou. Job 26:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 26:3 · JPS 1917

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How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** counsel, have, declare · **To what, where:** arm, wisdom, sound knowledge

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This is Job 26:3 · 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 (thou), 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:657
# text = How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	counselled	counsel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	plentifully	plentifully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	sound	sound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- 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 | **counsel** *speech: other* | present · perfect | thou |  | arm |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | no wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Patient |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | thou *not said here* | sound knowledge |  |  |  | plentifully *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Attribute |

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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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מַה־יָּ֭עַצְתָּ לְלֹ֣א חָכְמָ֑ה וְ֝תוּשִׁיָּ֗ה לָרֹ֥ב הוֹדָֽעְתָּ׃

[Job 26:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.3/)

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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:657` 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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