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title: Job 34:16 (JPS 1917) — If now thou hast understanding, hear this; hearken to the voice of m… · tree and pragmatics
description: If now thou hast understanding, hear this; hearken to the voice of my words. Who acts: thou, you, my. Job 34:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 34:16 · JPS 1917

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If now thou hast understanding, hear this; hearken to the voice of my words.

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**Who acts:** thou, you, my · **What happens:** have, hear, hearken, word · **To what, where:** understanding, this

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This is Job 34:16 · 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, you, my), 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:894
# text = If now thou hast understanding, hear this; hearken to the voice of my words.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hearken	hearken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | understanding |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent understanding=Patient |
| 2 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hearken** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the voice of my words | tree rules |
| 4 | **word** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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וְאִם־בִּ֥ינָה שִׁמְעָה־זֹּ֑את הַ֝אֲזִ֗ינָה לְק֣וֹל מִלָּֽי׃

[Job 34:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.16/)

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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:894` 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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