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title: Job 5:4 (JPS 1917) — His children are far from safety, and are crushed in the gate, with… · tree and pragmatics
description: His children are far from safety, and are crushed in the gate, with none to deliver them. Who acts: children. Job 5:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 5:4 · JPS 1917

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His children are far from safety, and are crushed in the gate, with none to deliver them.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** be, crush, deliver · **To what, where:** safety, gate, children

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This is Job 5:4 · 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 (children), 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:94
# text = His children are far from safety, and are crushed in the gate, with none to deliver them.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	crushed	crush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	10	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | foolish's children |  |  | safety |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **crush** | present · passive | foolish's children *not said here* |  |  | the gate |  | with none | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with none=Instrument |
| 3 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | foolish's children *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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יִרְחֲק֣וּ בָנָ֣יו מִיֶּ֑שַׁע וְיִֽדַּכְּא֥וּ בַ֝שַּׁ֗עַר וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל׃

[Job 5:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.4/)

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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:94` 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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