--- title: Job 36:28 (JPS 1917) — Which the skies pour down and drop upon the multitudes of men. · tree and pragmatics description: Which the skies pour down and drop upon the multitudes of men. Who acts: skies. Job 36:28 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.968/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Job](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/) / [chapter 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB/36/) / [36:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.28/) / JPS 1 # Job 36:28 · JPS 1917 Which the skies pour down and drop upon the multitudes of men. **Who acts:** skies · **What happens:** pour down, drop · **To what, where:** multitudes This is Job 36:28 · 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 (skies), 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:968 # text = Which the skies pour down and drop upon the multitudes of men. 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 obj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 skies sky NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 pour pour VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 down down ADV RP _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 upon upon ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 multitudes multitude NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pour down** | present | the skies | | | | | down *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | | 2 | **drop** | present | the skies *not said here* | | | the multitudes of men | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon multitude=Trajectory | 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} אֲשֶֽׁר־יִזְּל֥וּ שְׁחָקִ֑ים יִ֝רְעֲפ֗וּ עֲלֵ֤י ׀ אָדָ֬ם רָֽב׃ [Job 36:28: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.28/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:JOB:968` 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. - ← previous: [Job 36:27 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.967/) - next →: [Job 36:29 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.969/) - ↑ back to [Job 36:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.28/)