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title: Job 34:29 (JPS 1917) — When He giveth quietness, who then can condemn? · tree and pragmatics
description: When He giveth quietness, who then can condemn? Who acts: shadow. Job 34:29 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 34:29 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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When He giveth quietness, who then can condemn?

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**Who acts:** shadow · **What happens:** give, condemn · **To what, where:** quietness

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This is Job 34:29 · 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 (shadow), 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:910
# text = When He giveth quietness, who then can condemn?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	quietness	quietness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	condemn	condemn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: wh-question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | shadow | quietness |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quietness=Theme |
| 2 | **condemn** | can |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: 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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וְה֤וּא יַשְׁקִ֨ט ׀ וּמִ֥י יַרְשִׁ֗עַ וְיַסְתֵּ֣ר פָּ֭נִים וּמִ֣י יְשׁוּרֶ֑נּוּ וְעַל־גּ֖וֹי וְעַל־אָדָ֣ם יָֽחַד׃

[Job 34:29: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.29/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **When He giveth quietness, who then can condemn?**
2. [And when He hideth His face, who then can behold Him? whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man, alike;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.911/)

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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:910` 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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