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title: Habakkuk 1:2 (JPS 1917) — How long, O LORD, shall I cry, and Thou wilt not hear? · tree and pragmatics
description: How long, O LORD, shall I cry, and Thou wilt not hear? Who acts: I, Thou. Habakkuk 1:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Habakkuk 1:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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How long, O LORD, shall I cry, and Thou wilt not hear?

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**Who acts:** I, Thou · **What happens:** cry, not hear

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This is Habakkuk 1:2 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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, 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:HAB:1
# text = How long, O LORD, shall I cry, and Thou wilt not hear?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nsubj	_	_
13	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed form=q

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | shall | I |  |  |  |  | LORD *vocative*; long *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **hear** | future | Thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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עַד־אָ֧נָה יְהוָ֛ה שִׁוַּ֖עְתִּי וְלֹ֣א תִשְׁמָ֑ע אֶזְעַ֥ק אֵלֶ֛יךָ חָמָ֖ס וְלֹ֥א תוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃

[Habakkuk 1:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.2/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **How long, O LORD, shall I cry, and Thou wilt not hear?**
2. [I cry out unto Thee of violence, and Thou wilt not save.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAB.2/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:HAB:1` 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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