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title: Job 5:1 (JPS 1917) — Call now; is there any that will answer thee? · tree and pragmatics
description: Call now; is there any that will answer thee? Who acts: you, any. Job 5:1 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 5:1 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Call now; is there any that will answer thee?

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**Who acts:** you, any · **What happens:** call, be, answer · **To what, where:** thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 5:1 · 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 (you, any), 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:90
# text = Call now; is there any that will answer thee?
1	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	_	4	expl	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obj	_	_
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** | present | any |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | future |  | thee |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality |

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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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קְֽרָא־נָ֭א הֲיֵ֣שׁ עוֹנֶ֑ךָּ וְאֶל־מִ֖י מִקְּדֹשִׁ֣ים תִּפְנֶֽה׃

[Job 5:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.1/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Call now; is there any that will answer thee?**
2. [And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.91/)

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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:90` 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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