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title: Job 34:15 (JPS 1917) — All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return unto dust. · tree and pragmatics
description: All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return unto dust. Who acts: flesh, man. Job 34:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 34:15 · JPS 1917

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All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return unto dust.

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**Who acts:** flesh, man · **What happens:** perish, return

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This is Job 34:15 · 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 (flesh, man), 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:893
# text = All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return unto dust.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **perish** | shall | all flesh |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **return** | shall | man |  |  |  |  | unto dust | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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יִגְוַ֣ע כָּל־בָּשָׂ֣ר יָ֑חַד וְ֝אָדָ֗ם עַל־עָפָ֥ר יָשֽׁוּב׃

[Job 34:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.15/)

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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:893` 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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