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title: Job 29:11 (JPS 1917) — For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw… · tree and pragmatics
description: For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me; Who acts: ear, eye. Job 29:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 29:11 · JPS 1917

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For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me;

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**Who acts:** ear, eye · **What happens:** hear, bless, see, give · **To what, where:** me, witness

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This is Job 29:11 · 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 (ear, eye), 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:734
# text = For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me;
1	For	for	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **hear** | past | the ear | me |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bless** | past | ear | me |  |  | then |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | the eye | me |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give** | past | eye | witness |  |  |  | unto me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Theme |

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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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כִּ֤י אֹ֣זֶן שָׁ֭מְעָה וַֽתְּאַשְּׁרֵ֑נִי וְעַ֥יִן רָ֝אֲתָ֗ה וַתְּעִידֵֽנִי׃

[Job 29:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.11/)

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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:734` 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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