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title: Job 28:20 (JPS 1917) — And where is the place of understanding? · tree and pragmatics
description: And where is the place of understanding? Job 28:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 28:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And where is the place of understanding?

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This is Job 28:20 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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: 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:715
# text = And where is the place of understanding?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וְֽ֭הַחָכְמָה מֵאַ֣יִן תָּב֑וֹא וְאֵ֥י זֶ֝֗ה מְק֣וֹם בִּינָֽה׃

[Job 28:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.20/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Whence then cometh wisdom?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.714/)
2. **And where is the place of understanding?**

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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:715` 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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