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title: Habakkuk 1:17 (JPS 1917) — Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare to slay the nati… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare to slay the nations continually? Who acts: things. Habakkuk 1:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Habakkuk 1:17 · JPS 1917

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Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?

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**Who acts:** things · **What happens:** empty, not spare, slay · **To what, where:** net, nations

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This is Habakkuk 1:17 · 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 (things), 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:20
# text = Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare to slay the nations continually?
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	empty	empty	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **empty** | shall | things *= thing* | things's net |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent net=Source |
| 2 | **not** **spare** | infinitive | things *= thing* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **slay** | to-infinitive | things *= thing* *not said here* | the nations |  |  |  | continually *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Patient |

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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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הַ֥עַל כֵּ֖ן יָרִ֣יק חֶרְמ֑וֹ וְתָמִ֛יד לַהֲרֹ֥ג גּוֹיִ֖ם לֹ֥א יַחְמֽוֹל׃ס

[Habakkuk 1:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.17/)

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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:20` 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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