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title: Habakkuk 3:11 (JPS 1917) — The sun and moon stand still in their habitation; at the light of Th… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun and moon stand still in their habitation; at the light of Thine arrows as they go, at the shining of Thy glittering spear. Who acts: sun. Habakkuk 3:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Habakkuk 3:11 · JPS 1917

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The sun and moon stand still in their habitation; at the light of Thine arrows as they go, at the shining of Thy glittering spear.

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** stand, go, light, shine · **To what, where:** habitation, arrows, glittering spear

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This is Habakkuk 3:11 · 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 (sun), 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:54
# text = The sun and moon stand still in their habitation; at the light of Thine arrows as they go, at the shining of Thy glittering spear.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	habitation	habitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shining	shining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	glittering	glitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **stand** | present | the sun and moon |  |  | sun's habitation | still | at the light of Thine arrows | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in habitation=Location |
| 2 | **go** | present | sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **light** |  |  | Thine arrows |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **shine** |  |  | Thy glittering spear |  |  |  |  | nom shining «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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שֶׁ֥מֶשׁ יָרֵ֖חַ עָ֣מַד זְבֻ֑לָה לְא֤וֹר חִצֶּ֙יךָ֙ יְהַלֵּ֔כוּ לְנֹ֖גַהּ בְּרַ֥ק חֲנִיתֶֽךָ׃

[Habakkuk 3:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.11/)

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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:54` 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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