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title: Habakkuk 2:15 (JPS 1917) — Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy venom… · tree and pragmatics
description: Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy venom thereto, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! Who acts: Woe, that, thou. Habakkuk 2:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Habakkuk 2:15 · JPS 1917

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Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy venom thereto, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

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**Who acts:** Woe, that, thou · **What happens:** give, put, make, look · **To what, where:** neighbour drink, venom, Woe

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This is Habakkuk 2:15 · 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 (Woe, that, 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:35
# text = Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy venom thereto, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
1	Woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	_
2	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	giveth	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	puttest	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	thereto	thereto	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	makest	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	drunken	drunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
24	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	nakedness	nakedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: exclamation
- act: other
- 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 | **give** | present | Woe | Woe's neighbour drink |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | present | that | thy venom |  |  |  | Woe *vocative*; thereto *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent venom=Goal |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | that *not said here* | Woe |  |  |  | drunken *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 4 | **look** | may | thou |  |  |  |  | on waters's nakedness | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on nakedness=Theme |

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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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ה֚וֹי מַשְׁקֵ֣ה רֵעֵ֔הוּ מְסַפֵּ֥חַ חֲמָתְךָ֖ וְאַ֣ף שַׁכֵּ֑ר לְמַ֥עַן הַבִּ֖יט עַל־מְעוֹרֵיהֶֽם׃

[Habakkuk 2:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.15/)

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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:35` 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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