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title: Job 32:7 (JPS 1917) — I said: 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisd… · tree and pragmatics
description: I said: 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.' Who acts: I, Days, multitude. Job 32:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 32:7 · JPS 1917

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I said: 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'

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**Who acts:** I, Days, multitude · **What happens:** say, speak, teach · **To what, where:** wisdom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 32:7 · 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, Days, multitude), 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:829
# text = I said: 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | should | Days |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | should | multitude of years | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wisdom=Recipient |

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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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אָ֭מַרְתִּי יָמִ֣ים יְדַבֵּ֑רוּ וְרֹ֥ב שָׁ֝נִ֗ים יֹדִ֥יעוּ חָכְמָֽה׃

[Job 32:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.7/)

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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:829` 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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