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title: Habakkuk 1:13 (JPS 1917) — Thou that art of eyes too pure to behold evil, and that canst not lo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou that art of eyes too pure to behold evil, and that canst not look on mischief, wherefore lookest Thou, when they deal treacherously, and holdest Thy peace, when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he; Who acts: Thou, that, eyes, wicked. Habakkuk 1:13 in JPS 1917 with it
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# Habakkuk 1:13 · JPS 1917

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Thou that art of eyes too pure to behold evil, and that canst not look on mischief, wherefore lookest Thou, when they deal treacherously, and holdest Thy peace, when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;

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**Who acts:** Thou, that, eyes, wicked, man, Thy · **What happens:** be, behold, not look, look, deal, hold · **To what, where:** evil, peace, man

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This is Habakkuk 1:13 · 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 (Thou, that, eyes, wicked), 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:16
# text = Thou that art of eyes too pure to behold evil, and that canst not look on mischief, wherefore lookest Thou, when they deal treacherously, and holdest Thy peace, when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
3	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
14	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	lookest	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	deal	deal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	treacherously	treacherously	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	holdest	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	37	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	nsubj	_	_
37	swalloweth	swallow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	44	advmod	_	_
44	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	than	than	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	_
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Thou |  |  |  |  | of eyes; pure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **behold** | to-infinitive | Thou *not said here* | evil |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **look** | can | that |  |  |  |  | on mischief | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on mischief=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | present | Thou |  |  |  |  | wherefore *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **deal** | present | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | treacherously *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hold** | present | Thou *not said here* | Thy peace |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |
| 7 | **swallow up** | present | the wicked | the man |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | present | the man |  |  |  |  | than man; righteous *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **pacify** |  | Thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom peace «state 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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טְה֤וֹר עֵינַ֙יִם֙ מֵרְא֣וֹת רָ֔ע וְהַבִּ֥יט אֶל־עָמָ֖ל לֹ֣א תוּכָ֑ל לָ֤מָּה תַבִּיט֙ בּֽוֹגְדִ֔ים תַּחֲרִ֕ישׁ בְּבַלַּ֥ע רָשָׁ֖ע צַדִּ֥יק מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃

[Habakkuk 1:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.13/)

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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:16` 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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