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title: Hosea 8:7 (JPS 1917) — For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; it hath no… · tree and pragmatics
description: For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; it hath no stalk, the bud that shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up. Who acts: shivers, calf, bud, strangers. Hosea 8:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 8:7 · JPS 1917

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For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; it hath no stalk, the bud that shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

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**Who acts:** shivers, calf, bud, strangers · **What happens:** sow, reap, have, yield, be, swallow up · **To what, where:** wind, whirlwind, stalk, meal, calf

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This is Hosea 8:7 · 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 (shivers, calf, bud, strangers), 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:110
# text = For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; it hath no stalk, the bud that shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sow	sow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	reap	reap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	stalk	stalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	yield	yield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	yield	yield	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **sow** | present | shivers *= shiver* | the wind |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wind=Theme |
| 2 | **reap** | shall | shivers *= shiver* | the whirlwind |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whirlwind=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | calf | no stalk |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalk=Patient |
| 4 | **yield** | shall | the bud | no meal |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent meal=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive | calf |  |  |  |  | yield *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **swallow up** | shall | strangers | calf |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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כִּ֛י ר֥וּחַ יִזְרָ֖עוּ וְסוּפָ֣תָה יִקְצֹ֑רוּ קָמָ֣ה אֵֽין־ל֗וֹ צֶ֚מַח בְּלִ֣י יַֽעֲשֶׂה־קֶּ֔מַח אוּלַ֣י יַֽעֲשֶׂ֔ה זָרִ֖ים יִבְלָעֻֽהוּ׃

[Hosea 8:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.7/)

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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:110` 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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