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title: Haggai 1:9 (JPS 1917) — Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Who acts: Ye, much, I. Haggai 1:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Haggai 1:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3

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Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it.

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**Who acts:** Ye, much, I · **What happens:** look, come, bring, blow · **To what, where:** little, much

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This is Haggai 1:9 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 3 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 (Ye, much, I), 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:8
# text = Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it.
1	Ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	much	much	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	little	little	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **look** | past | Ye |  |  |  |  | for much | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for much=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | much |  |  | little |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to little=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bring** | past | ye | much |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **blow** | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | upon much | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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פָּנֹ֤ה אֶל־הַרְבֵּה֙ וְהִנֵּ֣ה לִמְעָ֔ט וַהֲבֵאתֶ֥ם הַבַּ֖יִת וְנָפַ֣חְתִּי ב֑וֹ יַ֣עַן מֶ֗ה נְאֻם֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת יַ֗עַן בֵּיתִי֙ אֲשֶׁר־ה֣וּא חָרֵ֔ב וְאַתֶּ֥ם רָצִ֖ים אִ֥ישׁ לְבֵיתֽוֹ׃

[Haggai 1:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAG.1.9/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it.**
2. [Why? saith the LORD of hosts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAG.9/)
3. [Because of My house that lieth waste, while ye run every man for his own house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HAG.10/)

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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:8` 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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