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title: Job 34:4 (JPS 1917) — Let us choose for us that which is right; let us know among ourselve… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us choose for us that which is right; let us know among ourselves what is good. Who acts: you, us. Job 34:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 34:4 · JPS 1917

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Let us choose for us that which is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** let, choose, be, know · **To what, where:** us, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 34:4 · 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 (you, us), 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:881
# text = Let us choose for us that which is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- 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 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | infinitive | us *not said here* | that |  |  |  | for us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Theme for we=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among ourselves | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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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מִשְׁפָּ֥ט נִבְחֲרָה־לָּ֑נוּ נֵדְעָ֖ה בֵינֵ֣ינוּ מַה־טּֽוֹב׃

[Job 34:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.4/)

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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:881` 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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