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title: Habakkuk 2:13 (JPS 1917) — Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labour for t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity? Who acts: city, peoples, nations. Habakkuk 2:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Habakkuk 2:13 · JPS 1917

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Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

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**Who acts:** city, peoples, nations · **What happens:** not be, labour, weary · **To what, where:** LORD, peoples

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This is Habakkuk 2:13 · 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 (city, peoples, nations), 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:33
# text = Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	labour	labour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	weary	weary	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | city |  |  |  |  | of the LORD; of hosts | tree rules |
| 2 | **labour** | present | the peoples | the LORD |  |  |  | for the fire | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weary** | present | the nations | peoples *= people* |  |  |  | for vanity | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=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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הֲל֣וֹא הִנֵּ֔ה מֵאֵ֖ת יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת וְיִֽיגְע֤וּ עַמִּים֙ בְּדֵי־אֵ֔שׁ וּלְאֻמִּ֖ים בְּדֵי־רִ֥יק יִעָֽפוּ׃

[Habakkuk 2:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.13/)

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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:33` 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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