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title: Job 31:10 (JPS 1917) — Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. · tree and pragmatics
description: Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. Who acts: you, wife, others. Job 31:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 31:10 · JPS 1917

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Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

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**Who acts:** you, wife, others · **What happens:** let, grind, bow down · **To what, where:** wife, others

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This is Job 31:10 · 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, wife, others), 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:789
# text = Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	grind	grind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	bow	bow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	.	.	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* | my wife |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grind** | infinitive | my wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto another | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | others |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bow down** | infinitive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon wife; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon she=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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תִּטְחַ֣ן לְאַחֵ֣ר אִשְׁתִּ֑י וְ֝עָלֶ֗יהָ יִכְרְע֥וּן אֲחֵרִֽין׃

[Job 31:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.10/)

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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:789` 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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