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title: Job 1:9 (JPS 1917) — Then Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'Doth Job fear God for nought? · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'Doth Job fear God for nought? Who acts: Satan, Job. Job 1:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 1:9 · JPS 1917

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Then Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'Doth Job fear God for nought?

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**Who acts:** Satan, Job · **What happens:** answer, say, fear · **To what, where:** LORD, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 1:9 · 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 (Satan, Job), 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:8
# text = Then Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'Doth Job fear God for nought?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Satan	Satan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	Job	Job	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	nought	nought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: ask
- 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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Satan |  | the LORD |  | then |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lord=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Satan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fear** | present · do-support | Job | God |  |  |  | for nought | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus for nought=Attribute |

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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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וַיַּ֧עַן הַשָּׂטָ֛ן אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה וַיֹּאמַ֑ר הַֽחִנָּ֔ם יָרֵ֥א אִיּ֖וֹב אֱלֹהִֽים׃

[Job 1:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.9/)

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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:8` 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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