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title: Job 31:39 (JPS 1917) — If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the… · tree and pragmatics
description: If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed — Who acts: I, tillers. Job 31:39 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 31:39 · JPS 1917

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If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed —

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**Who acts:** I, tillers · **What happens:** eat, cause, disappointed · **To what, where:** fruits, tillers

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This is Job 31:39 · 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, tillers), 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:820
# text = If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the tillers thereof to be disappointed —
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tillers	tiller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	disappointed	disappointed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present · perfect | I | the fruits |  |  |  | without money | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 2 | **cause** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | the tillers |  |  |  | thereof *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **disappointed** | to-infinitive · passive | the tillers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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־כֹּ֭חָהּאָכַ֣לְתִּי בְלִי־כָ֑סֶף וְנֶ֖פֶשׁ בְּעָלֶ֣יהָ הִפָּֽחְתִּי׃

[Job 31:39: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.39/)

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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:820` 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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