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title: Job 28:3 (JPS 1917) — Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bound the stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death. Who acts: Man. Job 28:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 28:3 · JPS 1917

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Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bound the stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.

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**Who acts:** Man · **What happens:** set, search out, shadow · **To what, where:** end, furthest bound, death

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This is Job 28:3 · 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 (Man), 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:696
# text = Man setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out to the furthest bound the stones of thick darkness and of the shadow of death.
1	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	setteth	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	searcheth	search	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	furthest	furthest	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | present | Man | a end |  |  |  | to darkness | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient end=Result |
| 2 | **search out** | present | Man *not said here* | furthest bound |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Location |
| 3 | **shadow** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=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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קֵ֤ץ ׀ שָׂ֤ם לַחֹ֗שֶׁךְ וּֽלְכָל־תַּ֭כְלִית ה֣וּא חוֹקֵ֑ר אֶ֖בֶן אֹ֣פֶל וְצַלְמָֽוֶת׃

[Job 28:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.3/)

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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:696` 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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