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title: Job 33:13 (JPS 1917) — Why hast thou striven against Him? seeing that He will not answer an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why hast thou striven against Him? seeing that He will not answer any of his words. Who acts: thou, iniquity. Job 33:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 33:13 · JPS 1917

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Why hast thou striven against Him? seeing that He will not answer any of his words.

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**Who acts:** thou, iniquity · **What happens:** strive, see, not answer, word · **To what, where:** any · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 33:13 · 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, iniquity), 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:857
# text = Why hast thou striven against Him? seeing that He will not answer any of his words.
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	striven	strive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
8	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strive** | present · perfect | thou |  |  |  |  | against iniquity | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | future | iniquity | any |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality |
| 4 | **word** |  | iniquity |  |  |  |  |  | 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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מַ֭דּוּעַ אֵלָ֣יו רִיב֑וֹתָ כִּ֥י כָל־דְּ֝בָרָ֗יו לֹ֣א־יַעֲנֶֽה׃

[Job 33:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.13/)

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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:857` 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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