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title: Job 30:2 (JPS 1917) — Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men i… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished. Who acts: strength. Job 30:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 30:2 · JPS 1917

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Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.

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**Who acts:** strength · **What happens:** profit, perish · **To what, where:** me, ripe age

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This is Job 30:2 · 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 (strength), 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:750
# text = Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.
1	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	whereto	whereto	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	profit	profit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
18	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **profit** | should | strength |  | me |  |  | whereto *property* | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **perish** | present · passive |  | ripe age |  |  |  | in men | tree rules |

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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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גַּם־כֹּ֣חַ יְ֭דֵיהֶם לָ֣מָּה לִּ֑י עָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹ אָ֣בַד כָּֽלַח׃

[Job 30:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.2/)

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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:750` 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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