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title: Job 5:8 (JPS 1917) — But as for me, I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my… · tree and pragmatics
description: But as for me, I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause; Who acts: I, my. Job 5:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Job 5:8 · JPS 1917

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But as for me, I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause;

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** seek, commit, cause · **To what, where:** cause

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This is Job 5:8 · 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, my), 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:98
# text = But as for me, I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause;
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	commit	commit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | would | I |  |  |  |  | as me; unto God | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **commit** | would | I | my cause |  |  |  | unto God | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: 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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אוּלָ֗ם אֲ֭נִי אֶדְרֹ֣שׁ אֶל־אֵ֑ל וְאֶל־אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים אָשִׂ֥ים דִּבְרָתִֽי׃

[Job 5:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.8/)

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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:98` 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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