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title: Habakkuk 2:19 (JPS 1917) — Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. Who acts: breath. Habakkuk 2:19 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Habakkuk 2:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

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**Who acts:** breath · **What happens:** overlay, be · **To what, where:** wood, midst

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This is Habakkuk 2:19 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 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 (breath), 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:40
# text = Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	overlaid	overlay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overlay** | present · passive |  | wood |  |  |  | with gold and silver | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | no breath |  |  | the midst of wood; there |  | all *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location |

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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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ה֣וֹי אֹמֵ֤ר לָעֵץ֙ הָקִ֔יצָה ע֖וּרִי לְאֶ֣בֶן דּוּמָ֑ם ה֣וּא יוֹרֶ֔ה הִנֵּה־ה֗וּא תָּפוּשׂ֙ זָהָ֣ב וָכֶ֔סֶף וְכָל־ר֖וּחַ אֵ֥ין בְּקִרְבּֽוֹ׃

[Habakkuk 2:19: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.19/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Woe unto him that saith to the wood: 'Awake', to the dumb stone: 'Arise!' Can this teach?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAB.39/)
2. **Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.**

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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:40` 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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