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title: Job 27:14 (JPS 1917) — If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offsprin… · tree and pragmatics
description: If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not have bread enough. Who acts: Almighty, offspring. Job 27:14 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 27:14 · JPS 1917

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If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not have bread enough.

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**Who acts:** Almighty, offspring · **What happens:** multiply, be, not have · **To what, where:** children, bread

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This is Job 27:14 · 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 (Almighty, offspring), 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:684
# text = If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not have bread enough.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	multiplied	multiply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	offspring	offspring	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	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **multiply** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | God's children |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Almighty |  |  |  |  | for the sword | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **have** | shall | God's offspring | bread |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |

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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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אִם־יִרְבּ֣וּ בָנָ֣יו לְמוֹ־חָ֑רֶב וְ֝צֶאֱצָאָ֗יו לֹ֣א יִשְׂבְּעוּ־לָֽחֶם׃

[Job 27:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.14/)

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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:684` 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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