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title: Job 29:13 (JPS 1917) — The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and I cau… · tree and pragmatics
description: The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. Who acts: blessing, I. Job 29:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 29:13 · JPS 1917

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The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

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**Who acts:** blessing, I · **What happens:** be, perish, come, cause, sing, bless · **To what, where:** heart, tongue

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This is Job 29:13 · 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 (blessing, I), 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:736
# text = The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the blessing of tongue |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **perish** | to-infinitive | the blessing of tongue *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | the blessing of tongue |  |  |  |  | upon me | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon i=Location |
| 4 | **cause** | past | I | the widow's heart |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition heart=Patient |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the widow's heart *not said here* |  |  |  | for joy | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient |
| 6 | **bless** |  |  | tongue |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act 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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בִּרְכַּ֣ת אֹ֭בֵד עָלַ֣י תָּבֹ֑א וְלֵ֖ב אַלְמָנָ֣ה אַרְנִֽן׃

[Job 29:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.13/)

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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:736` 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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