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title: Job 27:16 (JPS 1917) — Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; · tree and pragmatics
description: Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; Who acts: God. Job 27:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 27:16 · JPS 1917

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Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** heap up, prepare · **To what, where:** silver, raiment

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This is Job 27:16 · 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 (God), 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:686
# text = Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heap	heap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	prepare	prepare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heap up** | present | God | silver |  |  |  | as the dust | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silver=Theme |
| 2 | **prepare** | present | God *not said here* | raiment |  |  |  | as the clay | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent raiment=Theme as clay=Attribute |

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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־יִצְבֹּ֣ר כֶּעָפָ֣ר כָּ֑סֶף וְ֝כַחֹ֗מֶר יָכִ֥ין מַלְבּֽוּשׁ׃

[Job 27:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.16/)

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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:686` 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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