--- title: Hosea 8:13 (JPS 1917) — As for the sacrifices that are made by fire unto Me, let them sacrif… · tree and pragmatics description: As for the sacrifices that are made by fire unto Me, let them sacrifice flesh and eat it, for the LORD accepteth them not. Who acts: fire, you, sacrifices, LORD. Hosea 8:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.116/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Hosea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS/) / [chapter 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS/8/) / [8:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.13/) / JPS 1 # Hosea 8:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 As for the sacrifices that are made by fire unto Me, let them sacrifice flesh and eat it, for the LORD accepteth them not. **Who acts:** fire, you, sacrifices, LORD · **What happens:** make, let, sacrifice, eat, not accept · **To what, where:** sacrifices, flesh This is Hosea 8:13 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (fire, you, sacrifices, LORD), 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:116 # text = As for the sacrifices that are made by fire unto Me, let them sacrifice flesh and eat it, for the LORD accepteth them not. 1 As as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 4 case _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sacrifices sacrifice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:agent _ _ 10 unto unto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 sacrifice sacrifice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 accepteth accept VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | fire | the sacrifices | | | | unto Me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | | 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | sacrifices *= sacrifice* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sacrifice** | infinitive | sacrifices *= sacrifice* *not said here* | flesh | | | | as the sacrifices | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent flesh=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | infinitive | sacrifices *= sacrifice* *not said here* | flesh | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **not** **accept** | present | the LORD | sacrifices *= sacrifice* | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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} זִבְחֵ֣י הַבְהָבַ֗י יִזְבְּח֤וּ בָשָׂר֙ וַיֹּאכֵ֔לוּ יְהוָ֖ה לֹ֣א רָצָ֑ם עַתָּ֞ה יִזְכֹּ֤ר עֲוֺנָם֙ וְיִפְקֹ֣ד חַטֹּאותָ֔ם הֵ֖מָּה מִצְרַ֥יִם יָשֽׁוּבוּ׃ [Hosea 8:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.13/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **As for the sacrifices that are made by fire unto Me, let them sacrifice flesh and eat it, for the LORD accepteth them not.** 2. [Now will He remember their iniquity, and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.117/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:HOS:116` 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. - ← previous: [Hosea 8:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.115/) - next →: [Hosea 8:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.117/) - ↑ back to [Hosea 8:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.13/)