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title: Job 1:8 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Hast thou considered My servant Job,… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Hast thou considered My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a whole-hearted and an upright man, one that feareth God, and shunneth evil?' Who acts: LORD, thou, none. Job 1:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 1:8 · JPS 1917

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And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Hast thou considered My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a whole-hearted and an upright man, one that feareth God, and shunneth evil?'

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**Who acts:** LORD, thou, none · **What happens:** say, consider, be, fear, shun · **To what, where:** servant, God, evil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 1:8 · 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 (LORD, thou, none), 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:7
# text = And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Hast thou considered My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a whole-hearted and an upright man, one that feareth God, and shunneth evil?'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
12	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	Job	Job	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	nsubj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	appos	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	feareth	fear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	shunneth	shun	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
42	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto Satan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **consider** | present · perfect | thou | My servant |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent servant=Attribute |
| 3 | **be** | present | none | My servant *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot servant=Theme |
| 4 | **fear** | present |  | God |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |
| 5 | **shun** | present |  | evil |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent evil=Location |

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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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־הַשָּׂטָ֔ן הֲשַׂ֥מְתָּ לִבְּךָ֖ עַל־עַבְדִּ֣י אִיּ֑וֹב כִּ֣י אֵ֤ין כָּמֹ֙הוּ֙ בָּאָ֔רֶץ אִ֣ישׁ תָּ֧ם וְיָשָׁ֛ר יְרֵ֥א אֱלֹהִ֖ים וְסָ֥ר מֵרָֽע׃

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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:7` 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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