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title: Habakkuk 1:12 (JPS 1917) — Art not Thou from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? · tree and pragmatics
description: Art not Thou from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? Who acts: Thou. Habakkuk 1:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Habakkuk 1:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Art not Thou from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One?

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** not be

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This is Habakkuk 1:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (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:13
# text = Art not Thou from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One?
1	Art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	everlasting	everlasting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
14	One	one	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- indirect: yes
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Thou |  |  |  |  | LORD *vocative*; everlasting *property* | tree rules |

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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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הֲל֧וֹא אַתָּ֣ה מִקֶּ֗דֶם יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהַ֛י קְדֹשִׁ֖י לֹ֣א נָמ֑וּת יְהוָה֙ לְמִשְׁפָּ֣ט שַׂמְתּ֔וֹ וְצ֖וּר לְהוֹכִ֥יחַ יְסַדְתּֽוֹ׃

[Habakkuk 1:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Art not Thou from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One?**
2. [We shall not die.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAB.14/)
3. [O LORD, Thou hast ordained them for judgment, and Thou, O Rock, hast established them for correction.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAB.15/)

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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:13` 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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