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title: Habakkuk 2:20 (JPS 1917) — But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silence b… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before Him. Who acts: LORD, earth. Habakkuk 2:20 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Habakkuk 2:20 · JPS 1917

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But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before Him.

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**Who acts:** LORD, earth · **What happens:** be, let, keep · **To what, where:** holy temple, earth, silence

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This is Habakkuk 2:20 · 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 (LORD, earth), 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:41
# text = But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before Him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the LORD |  |  | LORD's holy temple |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | all earth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | all earth *not said here* | silence |  |  | before LORD |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent silence=Theme before he=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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וַֽיהוָ֖ה בְּהֵיכַ֣ל קָדְשׁ֑וֹ הַ֥ס מִפָּנָ֖יו כָּל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃פ

[Habakkuk 2:20: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.20/)

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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:41` 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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