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title: Job 34:29 (JPS 1917) — And when He hideth His face, who then can behold Him? whether it be… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when He hideth His face, who then can behold Him? whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man, alike; 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 2 of 2

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And when He hideth His face, who then can behold Him? whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man, alike;

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**Who acts:** shadow · **What happens:** hide, behold, do · **To what, where:** face, shadow

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This is Job 34:29 · 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 (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:911
# text = And when He hideth His face, who then can behold Him? whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man, alike;
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hideth	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
14	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	alike	alike	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | shadow | shadow's face |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 2 | **behold** | can |  | shadow |  |  | then |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive · passive |  | face |  |  |  | unto a nation or a man; alike *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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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?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.910/)
2. **And when He hideth His face, who then can behold Him? whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man, alike;**

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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:911` 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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