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title: Job 34:18 (JPS 1917) — Or to nobles: 'Ye are wicked'? — · tree and pragmatics
description: Or to nobles: 'Ye are wicked'? — Who acts: Ye. Job 34:18 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 34:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Or to nobles: 'Ye are wicked'? —

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**Who acts:** Ye · **What happens:** be

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This is Job 34:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (Ye), 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:898
# text = Or to nobles: 'Ye are wicked'? —
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: fragment
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=frag

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Ye |  |  |  |  | wicked *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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הַאֲמֹ֣ר לְמֶ֣לֶךְ בְּלִיָּ֑עַל רָ֝שָׁ֗ע אֶל־נְדִיבִֽים׃

[Job 34:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.18/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Is it fit to say to a king: 'Thou art base'?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.897/)
2. **Or to nobles: 'Ye are wicked'? —**

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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:898` 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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