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title: Job 5:3 (JPS 1917) — I have seen the foolish taking root; but suddenly I beheld his habit… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have seen the foolish taking root; but suddenly I beheld his habitation cursed. Who acts: I, foolish. Job 5:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 5:3 · JPS 1917

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I have seen the foolish taking root; but suddenly I beheld his habitation cursed.

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**Who acts:** I, foolish · **What happens:** see, take, behold, curse · **To what, where:** root, habitation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Job 5:3 · 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 (I, foolish), 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:93
# text = I have seen the foolish taking root; but suddenly I beheld his habitation cursed.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	foolish	foolish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	ccomp	_	_
7	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	habitation	habitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | the foolish | root |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 3 | **behold** | past | I | foolish's habitation |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **curse** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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אֲ‍ֽנִי־רָ֭אִיתִי אֱוִ֣יל מַשְׁרִ֑ישׁ וָאֶקּ֖וֹב נָוֵ֣הוּ פִתְאֹֽם׃

[Job 5:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.3/)

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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:93` 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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