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title: Hosea 3:3 — and I said unto her: 'Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days; thou… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics
description: and I said unto her: 'Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife; nor will I be thine.' Who acts: I, Thou. Hosea 3:3 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, Targum Jonathan, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 3:3 הוֹשֵׁעַ

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**Who acts:** I, Thou · **What happens:** say, sit, not play, not be, be · **To what, where:** harlot, wife, thine · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse

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This is Hosea 3:3 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Nevi'im — the Prophets). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — I, Thou — and what happens in the verse to harlot, wife, thine, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of Targum Jonathan and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 14 chapters of Hosea on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between.

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וָאֹמַ֣ר אֵלֶ֗יהָ יָמִ֤ים רַבִּים֙ תֵּ֣שְׁבִי לִ֔י לֹ֣א תִזְנִ֔י וְלֹ֥א תִֽהְיִ֖י לְאִ֑ישׁ וְגַם־אֲנִ֖י אֵלָֽיִךְ׃

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[and I said unto her: 'Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife; nor will I be thine.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.37/)

## The tree {#tree}

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Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss.

```conllu rtl gloss
# sent_id = wlc:HOS:36
# text = וָאֹמַ֣ר אֵלֶ֗יהָ יָמִ֤ים רַבִּים֙ תֵּ֣שְׁבִי לִ֔י לֹ֣א תִזְנִ֔י וְלֹ֥א תִֽהְיִ֖י לְאִ֑ישׁ וְגַם־אֲנִ֖י אֵלָֽיִךְ׃
# verse = HOS.3.3
1-2	וָאֹמַ֣ר	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
1	וָ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=HOS_3:3!1|MId=o280030030011|Strong=2050b
2	אֹמַ֣ר	אָמַר	VERB	_	Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1	0	root	_	Gloss=I.said|Ref=HOS_3:3!1|MId=o280030030012|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:280010020091;|Type=wayyiqtol
3-4	אֵלֶ֗יהָ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
3	אֵלֶ֗י	אֶל	ADP	_	_	4	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=HOS_3:3!2|MId=o280030030021|Strong=0413
4	הָ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	Gloss=her|Ref=HOS_3:3!2|MId=o280030030022|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal
5	יָמִ֤ים	יוֹם	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Gloss=days|Ref=HOS_3:3!3|MId=o280030030031|Strong=3117
6	רַבִּים֙	רַב	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	5	amod	_	Gloss=many|Ref=HOS_3:3!4|MId=o280030030041|Strong=7227|Type=adjective
7	תֵּ֣שְׁבִי	יָשַׁב	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2	2	ccomp	_	Gloss=you.will.dwell|Ref=HOS_3:3!5|MId=o280030030051|Strong=3427|Frame=A0:280010030041;|Type=yiqtol
8-9	לִ֔י	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
8	ל	לְ	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=HOS_3:3!6|MId=o280030030061|Strong=3807a
9	ִ֔י	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	Gloss=me|Ref=HOS_3:3!6|MId=o280030030062|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal
10	לֹ֣א	לֹא	ADV	_	_	11	advmod	_	Gloss=not|Ref=HOS_3:3!7|MId=o280030030071|Strong=3808|Type=negative
11	תִזְנִ֔י	זָנָה	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2	7	parataxis	_	Gloss=you.must.prostitute.yourself|Ref=HOS_3:3!8|MId=o280030030081|Strong=2181|Frame=A0:280010030041;|Type=yiqtol
12-13	וְלֹ֥א	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
12	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	16	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=HOS_3:3!9|MId=o280030030091|Strong=2050b
13	לֹ֥א	לֹא	ADV	_	_	16	advmod	_	Gloss=not|Ref=HOS_3:3!9|MId=o280030030092|Strong=3808|Type=negative
14	תִֽהְיִ֖י	הָיָה	AUX	_	Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2	16	cop	_	Gloss=you.must.belong|Ref=HOS_3:3!10|MId=o280030030101|Strong=1961|Frame=A0:280010030041;|Type=yiqtol
15-16	לְאִ֑ישׁ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
15	לְ	לְ	ADP	_	_	16	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=HOS_3:3!11|MId=o280030030111|Strong=3807a
16	אִ֑ישׁ	אִישׁ	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Gloss=a.man|Ref=HOS_3:3!11|MId=o280030030112|Strong=0376
17-18	וְגַם־	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
17	וְ	וְ	CCONJ	_	_	19	cc	_	Gloss=and|Ref=HOS_3:3!12|MId=o280030030121|Strong=2050b
18	גַם־	גַּם	ADV	_	_	19	advmod	_	Gloss=also|Ref=HOS_3:3!12|MId=o280030030122|Strong=1571|Type=affirmation
19	אֲנִ֖י	אֲנִי	PRON	_	Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	conj	_	Gloss=I|Ref=HOS_3:3!13|MId=o280030030131|Strong=0589|Type=personal
20-21	אֵלָֽיִךְ	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
20	אֵלָֽי	אֶל	ADP	_	_	21	case	_	Gloss=to|Ref=HOS_3:3!14|MId=o280030030141|Strong=0413
21	ִךְ	הוּא	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	Gloss=you|Ref=HOS_3:3!14|MId=o280030030142|Strong=3509c|Type=pronominal
22	׃	׃	PUNCT	_	_	21	punct	_	Ref=HOS_3:3!14
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- speech: a frame and its quote
- negation: yes
- indirect: yes
- the frame alone: decl · narrate · none

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| verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| אֹמַר *I said* | wayyiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| תֵּשְׁבִי *you will dwell* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| **not** תִזְנִי *you must prostitute yourself* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |
| תִֽהְיִי *you must belong* | yiqtol · qal |  |  |  |  |

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MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen.

## Targum Jonathan {#onkelos}

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נְבִיָא אֱמַר לָהּ כְּנִשְׁתָּא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל חוֹבֵיכוֹן גְרָמוּ לְכוֹן דְתִגְלוּן יוֹמִין סַגִיאִין תִּתְנְהוֹן לְפוּלְחָנִי לָא תִטְעוּן וְלָא תִפְלְחוּן לְטַעֲוָתָא וְאַף אֲנָא עָתִיד לְרָחָמָא עֲלֵיכוֹן:

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The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet.

## English, JPS 1917 {#english}

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Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in.

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1. [and I said unto her: 'Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife; nor will I be thine.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.37/)

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**Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain.

**English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License).

Hebrew sentence `wlc:HOS:36`.

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