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title: Job 4:20 (JPS 1917) — Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever… · tree and pragmatics
description: Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it. Who acts: men. Job 4:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 4:20 · JPS 1917

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Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** shatter, perish, regard · **To what, where:** men, foundation

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This is Job 4:20 · 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 (men), 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:87
# text = Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
1	Betwixt	betwixt	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	shattered	shatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	perish	perish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	_	10	obl	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	any	any	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	10	advcl	_	_
15	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **shatter** | present · passive |  | men *= man* |  |  | morning |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **perish** | present | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **regard** | gerund |  | foundation |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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מִבֹּ֣קֶר לָעֶ֣רֶב יֻכַּ֑תּוּ מִבְּלִ֥י מֵ֝שִׂ֗ים לָנֶ֥צַח יֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

[Job 4:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.20/)

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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:87` 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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