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title: Job 32:1 (JPS 1917) — So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in… · tree and pragmatics
description: So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. Who acts: three men, Job. Job 32:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 32:1 · JPS 1917

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So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

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**Who acts:** three men, Job · **What happens:** cease, answer, be · **To what, where:** Job, own eyes

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This is Job 32:1 · 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 (three men, 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:823
# text = So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	Job	Job	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **cease** | past | this three men |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | this three men *not said here* |  | Job |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | Job |  |  | Job's own eyes |  | righteous *property* | 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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וַֽיִּשְׁבְּת֡וּ שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת הָאֲנָשִׁ֣ים הָ֭אֵלֶּה מֵעֲנ֣וֹת אֶת־אִיּ֑וֹב כִּ֤י ה֖וּא צַדִּ֣יק בְּעֵינָֽיו׃פ

[Job 32:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.1/)

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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:823` 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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