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title: Job 28:17 (JPS 1917) — Gold and glass cannot equal it; neither shall the exchange thereof b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gold and glass cannot equal it; neither shall the exchange thereof be vessels of fine gold. Who acts: Gold, exchange. Job 28:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 28:17 · JPS 1917

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Gold and glass cannot equal it; neither shall the exchange thereof be vessels of fine gold.

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**Who acts:** Gold, exchange · **What happens:** not equal, be · **To what, where:** silver, vessels

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This is Job 28:17 · 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 (Gold, exchange), 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:711
# text = Gold and glass cannot equal it; neither shall the exchange thereof be vessels of fine gold.
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	equal	equal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **equal** | can | Gold and glass | silver |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | shall | the exchange | vessels |  |  |  | of fine gold | tree rules |

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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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לֹא־יַעַרְכֶ֣נָּה זָ֭הָב וּזְכוֹכִ֑ית וּתְמ֖וּרָתָ֣הּ כְּלִי־פָֽז׃

[Job 28:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.17/)

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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:711` 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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