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title: Haggai 2:13 — Then said Haggai: 'If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any o… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: Then said Haggai: 'If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean?' And the priests answered and said: 'It shall be unclean.' Who acts: Haggai, one, body, priests. Haggai 2:13 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Haggai 2:13 חַגַּי

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**Who acts:** Haggai, one, body, priests · **What happens:** say, be, touch, answer · **To what, where:** any · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Haggai 2:13 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — Haggai, one, body, priests — and what happens in the verse to any, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 2 chapters of Haggai on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר חַגַּ֔י אִם־יִגַּ֧ע טְמֵא־נֶ֛פֶשׁ בְּכָל־אֵ֖לֶּה הֲיִטְמָ֑א וַיַּעֲנ֧וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ יִטְמָֽא׃

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[Then said Haggai: 'If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean?' And the priests answered and said: 'It shall be unclean.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAG.29/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:HAG:27
# text = וַיֹּ֣אמֶר חַגַּ֔י אִם־יִגַּ֧ע טְמֵא־נֶ֛פֶשׁ בְּכָל־אֵ֖לֶּה הֲיִטְמָ֑א וַיַּעֲנ֧וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ יִטְמָֽא׃
# verse = HAG.2.13
1-2	וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=HAG_2:13!1|MId=o370020130011|Strong=2050b
2	יֹּ֣אמֶר	אָמַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	0	root	_	Gloss=he.said|Ref=HAG_2:13!1|MId=o370020130012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:370020130021;A1:370020130092;|Type=wayyiqtol
3	חַגַּ֔י	חַגַּי	PROPN	_	_	2	nsubj	_	Gloss=Haggai|Ref=HAG_2:13!2|MId=o370020130021|Strong=2292
4	אִם־	אִם	SCONJ	_	_	5	mark	_	Gloss=if|Ref=HAG_2:13!3|MId=o370020130031|Strong=0518|SpaceAfter=No
5	יִגַּ֧ע	נָגַע	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	12	advcl	_	Gloss=he.will.touch|Ref=HAG_2:13!4|MId=o370020130041|Strong=5060|Frame=A0:370020130051;|Type=yiqtol
6	טְמֵא־	טָמֵא	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Gloss=a.[person].unclean|Ref=HAG_2:13!5|MId=o370020130051|Strong=2931|Type=adjective|SpaceAfter=No
7	נֶ֛פֶשׁ	נֶפֶשׁ	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	6	compound:smixut	_	Gloss=of.a.corpse|Ref=HAG_2:13!6|MId=o370020130061|Strong=5315
8-9	בְּכָל־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	בְּ	בְּ	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	Gloss=(in)|Ref=HAG_2:13!7|MId=o370020130071|Strong=0871a
9	כָל־	כֹּל	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Gloss=all|Ref=HAG_2:13!7|MId=o370020130072|Strong=3605
10	אֵ֖לֶּה	אֵלֶּה	DET	_	Gender=Com|Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	Gloss=these.[things]|Ref=HAG_2:13!8|MId=o370020130081|Strong=0428|Type=demonstrative
11-12	הֲיִטְמָ֑א	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
11	הֲ	הֲ	PART	_	_	12	advmod	_	Gloss=will|Ref=HAG_2:13!9|MId=o370020130091|Strong=1886b|Type=interrogative
12	יִטְמָ֑א	טָמֵא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	2	ccomp	_	Gloss=it.become.unclean?|Ref=HAG_2:13!9|MId=o370020130092|Strong=2930|Frame=A0:370020120112;370020120132;370020120152;370020120171;370020120201;|Type=yiqtol
13-14	וַיַּעֲנ֧וּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
13	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	14	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=HAG_2:13!10|MId=o370020130101|Strong=2050b
14	יַּעֲנ֧וּ	עָנָה	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=they.answered|Ref=HAG_2:13!10|MId=o370020130102|Strong=6030|Frame=A0:370020130112;|Type=wayyiqtol
15-16	הַכֹּהֲנִ֛ים	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	הַ	הַ	DET	_	PronType=Art	16	det	_	Gloss=the|Ref=HAG_2:13!11|MId=o370020130111|Strong=1886a|Type=definite_article
16	כֹּהֲנִ֛ים	כֹּהֵן	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	Gloss=priests|Ref=HAG_2:13!11|MId=o370020130112|Strong=3548
17-18	וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	וַ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	18	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=HAG_2:13!12|MId=o370020130121|Strong=2050b
18	יֹּאמְר֖וּ	אָמַר	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3	2	conj	_	Gloss=they.said|Ref=HAG_2:13!12|MId=o370020130122|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:370020130112;A1:370020130131;|Type=wayyiqtol
19	יִטְמָֽא	טָמֵא	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3	18	obj	_	Gloss=it.will.become.unclean|Ref=HAG_2:13!13|MId=o370020130131|Strong=2930|Frame=A0:370020120112;370020120132;370020120152;370020120171;370020120201;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No
20	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	19	punct	_	Ref=HAG_2:13!13
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- speech: a frame and its quote
- negation: no
- the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| יֹּאמֶר *he said* | wayyiqtol · qal | חַגַּי *Haggai* | יִטְמָא *it become unclean?* |  |  |
| יִגַּע *he will touch* | yiqtol · qal | טְמֵא־ *a \[person\] unclean* |  |  |  |
| יִטְמָא *it become unclean?* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| יַּעֲנוּ *they answered* | wayyiqtol · qal | כֹּהֲנִים *priests* |  |  |  |
| יֹּאמְרוּ *they said* | wayyiqtol · qal | כֹּהֲנִים *priests* | יִטְמָֽא *it will become unclean* |  |  |
| יִטְמָֽא *it will become unclean* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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וַאֲמַר חַגַי אִם יִקְרֵיב טְמֵא נַפְשָׁא בְּכָל אִלֵין הֲיִסְתָּאֵב וְאָתִיבוּ כַהֲנַיָא וַאֲמָרוּ יִסְתָּאָב:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [Then said Haggai: 'If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean?' And the priests answered and said: 'It shall be unclean.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAG.29/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:HAG:27`.

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