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title: Job 28:18 (JPS 1917) — No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; yea, the price of w… · tree and pragmatics
description: No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies. Who acts: price. Job 28:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 28:18 · JPS 1917

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No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

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**Who acts:** price · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** mention, rubies

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This is Job 28:18 · 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 (price), 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:712
# text = No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	mention	mention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
12	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	above	above	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | shall · passive |  | no mention |  |  |  | of coral; of crystal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **is** | present | the price of wisdom |  |  | rubies |  |  | 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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רָאמ֣וֹת וְ֭גָבִישׁ לֹ֣א יִזָּכֵ֑ר וּמֶ֥שֶׁךְ חָ֝כְמָ֗ה מִפְּנִינִֽים׃

[Job 28:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.18/)

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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:712` 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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