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title: Hosea 8:12 (JPS 1917) — Though I write for him never so many things of My Law, they are acco… · tree and pragmatics
description: Though I write for him never so many things of My Law, they are accounted as a stranger's. Who acts: I. Hosea 8:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 8:12 · JPS 1917

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Though I write for him never so many things of My Law, they are accounted as a stranger's.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** write, account · **To what, where:** many things, things

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This is Hosea 8:12 · 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 (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:HOS:115
# text = Though I write for him never so many things of My Law, they are accounted as a stranger's.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	accounted	account	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | I | many things of My Law |  |  |  | for Ephraim | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thing=Result for he=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **account** | present · passive |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  | as a stranger | tree rules |

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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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אֶ֨כְתָּב־ל֔וֹ רֻבֵּ֖י תּֽוֹרָתִ֑י כְּמוֹ־זָ֖ר נֶחְשָֽׁבוּ׃

[Hosea 8:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.12/)

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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:115` 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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