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title: Job 34:10 (JPS 1917) — Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from G… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that He should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that He should commit iniquity. Who acts: you, it, God. Job 34:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 34:10 · JPS 1917

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Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that He should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that He should commit iniquity.

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**Who acts:** you, it, God · **What happens:** hearken, be, do, commit · **To what, where:** wickedness, iniquity, Almighty

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This is Job 34:10 · 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, it, God), 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:887
# text = Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that He should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that He should commit iniquity.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	vocative	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	csubj	_	_
21	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Almighty	almighty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	commit	commit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
32	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearken** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto me; ye *vocative*; therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | it |  |  |  |  | from God; far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | should | God | wickedness |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wickedness=Eventuality |
| 4 | **commit** | should | God | iniquity |  | the Almighty |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=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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לָכֵ֤ן ׀ אַ֥נֲשֵׁ֥ילֵבָ֗ב שִׁמְע֫וּ לִ֥י חָלִ֖לָה לָאֵ֥ל מֵרֶ֗שַׁע וְשַׁדַּ֥י מֵעָֽוֶל׃

[Job 34:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.10/)

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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:887` 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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