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title: Job 31:9 (JPS 1917) — If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have lain in wait… · tree and pragmatics
description: If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbour's door; Who acts: I. Job 31:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 31:9 · JPS 1917

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If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbour's door;

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** entice, lie · **To what, where:** heart, wait

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This is Job 31:9 · 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:788
# text = If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbour's door;
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	enticed	entice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **entice** | present · perfect · passive |  | my heart |  |  |  | unto a woman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lie** | present · perfect | I |  |  | wait |  | at my neighbour's door | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wait=Location |

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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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אִם־נִפְתָּ֣ה לִ֭בִּי עַל־אִשָּׁ֑ה וְעַל־פֶּ֖תַח רֵעִ֣י אָרָֽבְתִּי׃

[Job 31:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.9/)

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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:788` 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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