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title: Hosea 1:2 (JPS 1917) — When the LORD spoke at first with Hosea, the LORD said unto Hosea: '… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the LORD spoke at first with Hosea, the LORD said unto Hosea: 'Go, take unto thee a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry; for the land doth commit great harlotry, departing from the LORD.' Who acts: LORD, land. Hosea 1:2 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Hosea 1:2 · JPS 1917

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When the LORD spoke at first with Hosea, the LORD said unto Hosea: 'Go, take unto thee a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry; for the land doth commit great harlotry, departing from the LORD.'

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**Who acts:** LORD, land · **What happens:** speak, say, go, take, commit, depart · **To what, where:** wife, great harlotry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Hosea 1:2 · 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 (LORD, land), 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:HOS:1
# text = When the LORD spoke at first with Hosea, the LORD said unto Hosea: 'Go, take unto thee a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry; for the land doth commit great harlotry, departing from the LORD.'
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Hosea	Hosea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Hosea	Hosea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	harlotry	harlotry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	harlotry	harlotry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	commit	commit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
36	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	harlotry	harlotry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	departing	depart	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
44	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | with Hosea; first *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with hosea=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the LORD |  |  |  |  | unto Hosea | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  |  | a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry |  |  | unto thee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |
| 5 | **commit** | present · do-support | the land | great harlotry |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harlotry=Theme |
| 6 | **depart** | gerund | the land *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the LORD | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from lord=Initial\_Location |

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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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תְּחִלַּ֥ת דִּבֶּר־יְהוָ֖ה בְּהוֹשֵׁ֑עַפ וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־הוֹשֵׁ֗עַ לֵ֣ךְ קַח־לְךָ֞ אֵ֤שֶׁת זְנוּנִים֙ וְיַלְדֵ֣י זְנוּנִ֔ים כִּֽי־זָנֹ֤ה תִזְנֶה֙ הָאָ֔רֶץ מֵֽאַחֲרֵ֖י יְהוָֽה׃

[Hosea 1:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.1.2/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:HOS:1` of Mova's parse database.

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