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title: Job 28:28 (JPS 1917) — And unto man He said: 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;… · tree and pragmatics
description: And unto man He said: 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.' Who acts: God, fear. Job 28:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 28:28 · JPS 1917

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And unto man He said: 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.'

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**Who acts:** God, fear · **What happens:** say, be, depart, fear · **To what, where:** wisdom, evil, understanding, Lord · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 28:28 · 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 (God, fear), 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:723
# text = And unto man He said: 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
8	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	csubj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | God |  |  |  |  | unto man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the fear of the Lord | wisdom and understanding |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **depart** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | evil |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from evil=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the fear of the Lord *not said here* | understanding |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fear** |  |  | the Lord |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling 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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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר ׀ לָֽאָדָ֗ם הֵ֤ן יִרְאַ֣ת אֲ֭דֹנָי הִ֣יא חָכְמָ֑ה וְס֖וּר מֵרָ֣ע בִּינָֽה׃ס

[Job 28:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.28/)

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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:723` 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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