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title: Job 29:25 (JPS 1917) — I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. Who acts: I. Job 29:25 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 29:25 · JPS 1917

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I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** choose out, sit, dwell, comfort · **To what, where:** way, mourners

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This is Job 29:25 · 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:748
# text = I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	PRON	NN	_	13	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	comforteth	comfort	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mourners	mourner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose out** | past | I | men's way |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as chief | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dwell** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a king in the army; as one | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **comfort** | present |  | the mourners |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mourner=Experiencer |

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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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אֶֽבֲחַ֣ר דַּרְכָּם֮ וְאֵשֵׁ֪ב רֹ֥אשׁ וְ֭אֶשְׁכּוֹן כְּמֶ֣לֶךְ בַּגְּד֑וּד כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר אֲבֵלִ֣ים יְנַחֵֽם׃

[Job 29:25: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.25/)

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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:748` 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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