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title: Job 33:16 (JPS 1917) — Then He openeth the ears of men, and by their chastisement sealeth t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then He openeth the ears of men, and by their chastisement sealeth the decree, Who acts: sleep, ears. Job 33:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 33:16 · JPS 1917

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Then He openeth the ears of men, and by their chastisement sealeth the decree,

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**Who acts:** sleep, ears · **What happens:** open, seal, chastise · **To what, where:** ears, decree

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This is Job 33:16 · 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 (sleep, ears), 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:860
# text = Then He openeth the ears of men, and by their chastisement sealeth the decree,
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	openeth	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	chastisement	chastisement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	sealeth	seal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **open** | present | sleep | the ears of men |  |  | then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ear=Theme |
| 2 | **seal** | present | sleep *not said here* | the decree |  |  |  | by ears's chastisement | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decree=Patient |
| 3 | **chastise** |  | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  |  | nom chastisement «act 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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אָ֣ז יִ֭גְלֶה אֹ֣זֶן אֲנָשִׁ֑ים וּבְמֹ֖סָרָ֣ם יַחְתֹּֽם׃

[Job 33:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.16/)

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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:860` 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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