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title: Job 31:15 (JPS 1917) — Did not He that made me in the womb make him? · tree and pragmatics
description: Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Who acts: God. Job 31:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 31:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Did not He that made me in the womb make him?

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** make, not make · **To what, where:** me, womb, fire

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This is Job 31:15 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (God), 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:795
# text = Did not He that made me in the womb make him?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
3	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed indirect=1, polarity=none, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | me |  | the womb |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |
| 2 | **not** **make** | past · do-support | God | fire |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product |

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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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הֲ‍ֽ֝לֹא־בַ֭בֶּטֶן עֹשֵׂ֣נִי עָשָׂ֑הוּ וַ֝יְכֻנֶ֗נּוּ בָּרֶ֥חֶם אֶחָֽד׃

[Job 31:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.15/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Did not He that made me in the womb make him?**
2. [And did not One fashion us in the womb?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.796/)

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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:795` 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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