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title: Haggai 1:4 (JPS 1917) — 'Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, whi… · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste? Who acts: word, you, house. Haggai 1:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Haggai 1:4 · JPS 1917

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'Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste?

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**Who acts:** word, you, house · **What happens:** be, dwell, cieled, lie · **To what, where:** time, cieled houses

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This is Haggai 1:4 · 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 (word, you, house), 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:HAG:3
# text = 'Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste?
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Emp	7	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	cieled	cieled	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lieth	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
20	waste	waste	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | word | a time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | you |  |  | your cieled houses |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 3 | **cieled** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | present | this house |  |  |  |  | waste *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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הַעֵ֤ת לָכֶם֙ אַתֶּ֔ם לָשֶׁ֖בֶת בְּבָתֵּיכֶ֣ם סְפוּנִ֑ים וְהַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּ֖ה חָרֵֽב׃

[Haggai 1:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAG.1.4/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:HAG:3` 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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