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title: Habakkuk 2:6 (JPS 1917) — Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting ri… · tree and pragmatics
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# Habakkuk 2:6 · JPS 1917

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Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say: 'Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with many pledges!'

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**Who acts:** these, that · **What happens:** not take up, taunt, say, increase, not be, lade · **To what, where:** parable, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Habakkuk 2:6 · 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 (these, that), 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:26
# text = Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say: 'Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with many pledges!'
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
4	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	taunting	taunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Woe	woe	INTJ	UH	_	20	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	increaseth	increase	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	obj	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
34	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
35	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	_
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	ladeth	lade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
40	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	pledges	pledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
45	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- 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** **take up** | shall | these | a parable and a taunting riddle against man |  |  |  | against man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent parable=Theme against he=Destination |
| 2 | **taunt** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | these *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **increase** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer that=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present |  | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lade** | present | that | man |  |  |  | with many pledges | 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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הֲלוֹא־אֵ֣לֶּה כֻלָּ֗ם עָלָיו֙ מָשָׁ֣ל יִשָּׂ֔אוּ וּמְלִיצָ֖ה חִיד֣וֹת ל֑וֹ וְיֹאמַ֗ר ה֚וֹי הַמַּרְבֶּ֣ה לֹּא־ל֔וֹ עַד־מָתַ֕י וּמַכְבִּ֥יד עָלָ֖יו עַבְטִֽיט׃

[Habakkuk 2:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.6/)

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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:26` 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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