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title: Job 33:33 (JPS 1917) — If not, hearken thou unto me; hold thy peace, and I will teach thee… · tree and pragmatics
description: If not, hearken thou unto me; hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom. Who acts: thou, I, thy. Job 33:33 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 33:33 · JPS 1917

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If not, hearken thou unto me; hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.

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**Who acts:** thou, I, thy · **What happens:** hearken, hold, teach, pacify · **To what, where:** peace, wisdom, thee

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This is Job 33:33 · 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, I, 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:877
# text = If not, hearken thou unto me; hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	not	not	ADV	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advcl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
6	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	iobj	_	_
18	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | infinitive | thou |  |  |  |  | unto me | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | infinitive |  | thy peace |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | future | I | wisdom | thee |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient wisdom=Topic |
| 4 | **pacify** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state 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־אַ֭יִן אַתָּ֥ה שְֽׁמַֽע־לִ֑י הַ֝חֲרֵ֗שׁ וַאֲאַלֶּפְךָ֥ חָכְמָֽה׃ס

[Job 33:33: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.33/)

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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:877` 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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