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title: Job 33:5 (JPS 1917) — If thou canst, answer thou me, set thy words in order before me, sta… · tree and pragmatics
description: If thou canst, answer thou me, set thy words in order before me, stand forth. Who acts: thou, thy. Job 33:5 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 33:5 · JPS 1917

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If thou canst, answer thou me, set thy words in order before me, stand forth.

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**Who acts:** thou, thy · **What happens:** answer, set, stand, word · **To what, where:** me, words

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This is Job 33:5 · 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 (thou, thy), 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:849
# text = If thou canst, answer thou me, set thy words in order before me, stand forth.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	answer	answer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	fixed	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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* | infinitive | thou |  | me |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | thy words |  |  |  | in me | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme in i=Destination |
| 3 | **stand** | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **word** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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־תּוּכַ֥ל הֲשִׁיבֵ֑נִי עֶרְכָ֥ה לְ֝פָנַ֗י הִתְיַצָּֽבָה׃

[Job 33:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.5/)

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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:849` 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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