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title: Job 4:2 (JPS 1917) — If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary? · tree and pragmatics
description: If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary? Who acts: one, thou. Job 4:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 4:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary?

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**Who acts:** one, thou · **What happens:** venture, be · **To what, where:** word

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This is Job 4:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (one, 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:66
# text = If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	venture	venture	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **venture** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one | a word |  |  |  | unto thee | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | future | thou |  |  |  |  | weary *property* | 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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הֲנִסָּ֬ה דָבָ֣ר אֵלֶ֣יךָ תִּלְאֶ֑ה וַעְצֹ֥ר בְּ֝מִלִּ֗ין מִ֣י יוּכָֽל׃

[Job 4:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.2/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary?**
2. [But who can withhold himself from speaking?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.67/)

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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:66` 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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