---
title: Job 29:17 (JPS 1917) — And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of… · tree and pragmatics
description: And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth. Who acts: I. Job 29:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.740/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/) / [chapter 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/29/) / [29:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.17/) / JPS 1

# Job 29:17 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** break, pluck · **To what, where:** jaws, prey, teeth

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Job 29:17 · 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 (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:740
# text = And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	unrighteous	unrighteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | I | the jaws of the unrighteous |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jaw=Patient |
| 2 | **pluck** | past | I *not said here* | the prey |  | cause's teeth |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent prey=Theme out tooth=Source |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
וָֽ֭אֲשַׁבְּרָה מְתַלְּע֣וֹת עַוָּ֑ל וּ֝מִשִּׁנָּ֗יו אַשְׁלִ֥יךְ טָֽרֶף׃

[Job 29:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.17/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:740` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Job 29:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.739/)
- next →: [Job 29:18 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.741/)
- ↑ back to [Job 29:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.17/)