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title: Job 35:3 (JPS 1917) — That thou inquirest: 'What advantage will it be unto Thee?' And: 'Wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: That thou inquirest: 'What advantage will it be unto Thee?' And: 'What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?' Who acts: thou, advantage, I. Job 35:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 35:3 · JPS 1917

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That thou inquirest: 'What advantage will it be unto Thee?' And: 'What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

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**Who acts:** thou, advantage, I · **What happens:** inquire, be, have, sin · **To what, where:** That, profit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 35:3 · JPS 1917 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 (thou, advantage, I), 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:923
# text = That thou inquirest: 'What advantage will it be unto Thee?' And: 'What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
1	That	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	inquirest	inquire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
6	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
7	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	ccomp	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
18	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	19	det	_	_
19	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
25	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	sinned	sin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inquire** *speech: other* | present | thou | That |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | future | advantage |  |  |  |  | unto Thee | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | shall | I | what profit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profit=Patient |
| 4 | **sin** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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כִּֽי־תֹ֭אמַר מַה־יִּסְכָּן־לָ֑ךְ מָֽה־אֹ֝עִ֗יל מֵֽחַטָּאתִֽי׃

[Job 35:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.35.3/)

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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:923` 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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