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title: Job 34:17 (JPS 1917) — Shall even one that hateth right govern? · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall even one that hateth right govern? Who acts: one. Job 34:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 34:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Shall even one that hateth right govern?

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** hate, govern · **To what, where:** right

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This is Job 34:17 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (one), 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:895
# text = Shall even one that hateth right govern?
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	one	one	PRON	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hateth	hate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	govern	govern	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present |  | right |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus |
| 2 | **govern** | shall | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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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הַאַ֬ף שׂוֹנֵ֣א מִשְׁפָּ֣ט יַחֲב֑וֹשׁ וְאִם־צַדִּ֖יק כַּבִּ֣יר תַּרְשִֽׁיעַ׃

[Job 34:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.17/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Shall even one that hateth right govern?**
2. [And wilt thou condemn Him that is just and mighty —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.896/)

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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:895` 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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