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title: Job 35:6 (JPS 1917) — And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto Him? · tree and pragmatics
description: And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto Him? Who acts: thy. Job 35:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 35:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto Him?

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**Who acts:** thy · **What happens:** multiply, transgress · **To what, where:** transgressions

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This is Job 35:6 · 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 (thy), 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:927
# text = And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto Him?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	transgressions	transgression	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	multiplied	multiply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
9	doest	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
11	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=q, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **multiply** | infinitive · passive |  | thy transgressions |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **transgress** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom transgression «act intransitive»: poss=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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אִם־חָ֭טָאתָ מַה־תִּפְעָל־בּ֑וֹ וְרַבּ֥וּ פְ֝שָׁעֶ֗יךָ מַה־תַּעֲשֶׂה־לּֽוֹ׃

[Job 35:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.35.6/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [If thou hast sinned, what doest thou against Him?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.926/)
2. **And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto Him?**

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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:927` 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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