--- title: Habakkuk 3:14 (JPS 1917) — Thou hast stricken through with his own rods the head of his rulers,… · tree and pragmatics description: Thou hast stricken through with his own rods the head of his rulers, that come as a whirlwind to scatter me; whose rejoicing is as to devour the poor secretly. Who acts: Thou, head, rejoicing. 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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 (Thou, head, rejoicing), 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:57 # text = Thou hast stricken through with his own rods the head of his rulers, that come as a whirlwind to scatter me; whose rejoicing is as to devour the poor secretly. 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 2 hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 stricken stricken VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 through through ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 with with 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 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 rods rod NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 whirlwind whirlwind NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 scatter scatter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 24 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 rejoicing rejoicing NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 27 as as ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 devour devour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 poor poor NOUN NN Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=evaluate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stricken through** | present · perfect | Thou | the head of moon's rulers | | | | with moon's own rods | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | present | the head of moon's rulers | a whirlwind | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **scatter** | to-infinitive | the head of moon's rulers *not said here* | | me | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Destination | | 4 | **is a** | present | | rejoicing | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **devour** | to-infinitive | rejoicing | the poor | | | | secretly *property* | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Patient | 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} נָקַ֤בְתָּ בְמַטָּיו֙ רֹ֣אשׁ פְּרָזָ֔יו יִסְעֲר֖וּ לַהֲפִיצֵ֑נִי עֲלִ֣יצֻתָ֔ם כְּמוֹ־לֶאֱכֹ֥ל עָנִ֖י בַּמִּסְתָּֽר׃ [Habakkuk 3:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.14/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:HAB:57` 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. - ← previous: [Habakkuk 3:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAB.56/) - next →: [Habakkuk 3:15 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAB.58/) - ↑ back to [Habakkuk 3:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.3.14/)