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title: Job 31:8 (JPS 1917) — Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my fie… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out. Who acts: you, me, another. Job 31:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 31:8 · JPS 1917

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Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

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**Who acts:** you, me, another · **What happens:** let, sow, eat, root out · **To what, where:** me, produce

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This is Job 31:8 · 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 (you, me, another), 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:787
# text = Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	sow	sow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	produce	produce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	rooted	root	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sow** | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | infinitive | another |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **root out** | infinitive · passive |  | the produce of my field |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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אֶ֭זְרְעָה וְאַחֵ֣ר יֹאכֵ֑ל וְֽצֶאֱצָאַ֥י יְשֹׁרָֽשׁוּ׃

[Job 31:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.8/)

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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:787` 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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