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title: Job 36:21 (JPS 1917) — Take heed, regard not iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather tha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Take heed, regard not iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. Who acts: you, thou. Job 36:21 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 36:21 · JPS 1917

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Take heed, regard not iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** take, not regard, choose · **To what, where:** heed, iniquity, this

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This is Job 36:21 · 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 (you, thou), 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:960
# text = Take heed, regard not iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	regard	regard	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	_
10	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
13	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | heed |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **regard** | infinitive |  | iniquity |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme |
| 3 | **choose** | present · perfect | thou | this |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |

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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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הִ֭שָּׁמֶר אַל־תֵּ֣פֶן אֶל־אָ֑וֶן כִּֽי־עַל־זֶ֝֗ה בָּחַ֥רְתָּ מֵעֹֽנִי׃

[Job 36:21: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.21/)

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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:960` 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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