Habakkuk 1:4 · JPS 1917

Therefore the law is slacked, and right doth never go forth; for the wicked doth beset the righteous; therefore right goeth forth perverted.

Who acts: right, wicked · What happens: slack, not go, beset, go, pervert · To what, where: law, righteous

This is Habakkuk 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 (right, wicked), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	5 slacked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 law	det
3	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slacked	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slacked	aux:pass
5	slacked	slack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
8	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	nsubj
9	doth	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 go	advmod
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 slacked	conj
12	forth	forth	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 beset	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 beset	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wicked	det
16	wicked	wicked	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beset	nsubj
17	doth	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 beset	aux
18	beset	beset	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 slacked	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 righteous	det
20	righteous	righteous	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beset	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 goeth	punct
22	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	24 goeth	advmod
23	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 goeth	nsubj
24	goeth	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slacked	conj
25	forth	forth	ADV	_	24 goeth	advmod
26	perverted	pervert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 goeth	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slacked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slack	present · passive		the law	therefore property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	not go	present · do-support	right		forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beset	present · do-support	the wicked	the righteous		tree rules
4	go	present	right		forth, therefore property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	pervert	participle	right not said here			tree rules

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

עַל־כֵּן֙ תָּפ֣וּג תּוֹרָ֔ה וְלֹֽא־יֵצֵ֥א לָנֶ֖צַח מִשְׁפָּ֑ט כִּ֤י רָשָׁע֙ מַכְתִּ֣יר אֶת־הַצַּדִּ֔יק עַל־כֵּ֛ן יֵצֵ֥א מִשְׁפָּ֖ט מְעֻקָּֽל׃

Habakkuk 1:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:HAB:5 of Mova's parse database.

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