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title: Job 26:8 (JPS 1917) — He bindeth up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud is not r… · tree and pragmatics
description: He bindeth up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. Who acts: Destruction. Job 26:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 26:8 · JPS 1917

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He bindeth up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

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**Who acts:** Destruction · **What happens:** bind up, not rend, cloud · **To what, where:** waters, cloud

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This is Job 26:8 · 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 (Destruction), 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:663
# text = He bindeth up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bindeth	bind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	His	he	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	rent	rend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **bind up** | present | Destruction | the waters |  |  |  | in Destruction's thick clouds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Destination in cloud=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **rend** | present · passive |  | the cloud |  |  |  | under waters *= water* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **cloud** |  | Destruction |  |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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צֹרֵֽר־מַ֥יִם בְּעָבָ֑יו וְלֹא־נִבְקַ֖ע עָנָ֣ן תַּחְתָּֽם׃

[Job 26:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.8/)

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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:663` 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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