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title: Habakkuk 3:9 (JPS 1917) — Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word. · tree and pragmatics
description: Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word. Habakkuk 3:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Habakkuk 3:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word.

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**What happens:** make, swear, be · **To what, where:** bow, sworn rods

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This is Habakkuk 3:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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: 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:51
# text = Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rods	rod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **make** | present · passive |  | Thy bow |  |  |  | bare *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **swear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the sworn rods |  |  |  | of the word | 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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עֶרְיָ֤ה תֵעוֹר֙ קַשְׁתֶּ֔ךָ שְׁבֻע֥וֹת מַטּ֖וֹת אֹ֣מֶר סֶ֑לָה נְהָר֖וֹת תְּבַקַּע־אָֽרֶץ׃

[Habakkuk 3:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word.**
2. [Thou dost cleave the earth with rivers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAB.52/)

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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:51` 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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