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title: Job 31:33 (JPS 1917) — If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, by hiding mi… · tree and pragmatics
description: If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom — Who acts: I, my. Job 31:33 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 31:33 · JPS 1917

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If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom —

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** cover, hide, transgress, bosom · **To what, where:** transgressions, iniquity, bosom

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This is Job 31:33 · 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, my), 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:814
# text = If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom —
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	transgressions	transgression	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	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 | **cover** | past | I | my transgressions |  |  | after the manner of men |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent transgression=Destination |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund | I *not said here* | mine iniquity |  | my bosom |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent iniquity=Patient in bosom=Location |
| 3 | **transgress** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom transgression «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **bosom** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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־כִּסִּ֣יתִי כְאָדָ֣ם פְּשָׁעָ֑י לִטְמ֖וֹן בְּחֻבִּ֣י עֲוֺֽנִי׃

[Job 31:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.33/)

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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:814` 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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