--- title: Job 27:6 (JPS 1917) — My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; my heart shall… · tree and pragmatics description: My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. Who acts: I, righteousness, heart. 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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 (I, righteousness, heart), 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:676 # text = My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. 1 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 righteousness righteousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 fast fast ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 reproach reproach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold fast** | present | I | My righteousness *not said here* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent righteousness=Theme | | 2 | **not** **let** | future | I *not said here* | righteousness | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | righteousness *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **reproach** | shall | my heart | me | | | | long *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 5 | **live** | present | I | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} בְּצִדְקָתִ֣י הֶ֭חֱזַקְתִּי וְלֹ֣א אַרְפֶּ֑הָ לֹֽא־יֶחֱרַ֥ף לְ֝בָבִ֗י מִיָּמָֽי׃ [Job 27:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.6/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:676` 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. - ← previous: [Job 27:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.675/) - next →: [Job 27:7 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.677/) - ↑ back to [Job 27:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.6/)