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title: Job 26:14 (JPS 1917) — But the thunder of His mighty deeds who can understand? · tree and pragmatics
description: But the thunder of His mighty deeds who can understand? Who acts: mighty deeds. Job 26:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 26:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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But the thunder of His mighty deeds who can understand?

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**Who acts:** mighty deeds · **What happens:** understand, thunder · **To what, where:** thunder

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This is Job 26:14 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (mighty deeds), 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:670
# text = But the thunder of His mighty deeds who can understand?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | can |  | the thunder of Destruction's mighty deeds |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus |
| 2 | **thunder** |  | Destruction's mighty deeds |  |  |  |  |  | nom thunder «event intransitive»: of=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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הֶן־אֵ֤לֶּה ׀ קְצ֬וֹת דְּרָכָ֗יו וּמַה־שֵּׁ֣מֶץ דָּ֭בָר נִשְׁמַע־בּ֑וֹ וְרַ֥עַם גְּ֝בוּרוֹתָ֗יומִ֣י יִתְבּוֹנָֽן׃ס

[Job 26:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.14/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Lo, these are but the outskirts of His ways; and how small a whisper is heard of Him!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.669/)
2. **But the thunder of His mighty deeds who can understand?**

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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:670` 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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