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title: Hosea 2:4 (JPS 1917) — Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not My wife, neither am I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not My wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her harlotries from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts; Who acts: you, Ammi, I. Hosea 2:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 2:4 · JPS 1917

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Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not My wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her harlotries from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

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**Who acts:** you, Ammi, I · **What happens:** plead, not be, be, let, put away · **To what, where:** wife, husband, Ammi, harlotries, face

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This is Hosea 2:4 · 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 (you, Ammi, 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:13
# text = Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not My wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her harlotries from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
1	Plead	plead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	plead	plead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
16	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	away	away	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	harlotries	harlotry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	adulteries	adultery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	between	between	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	breasts	breast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plead** *speech: request* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with your mother | tree rules |
| 2 | **plead** *speech: request* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | Ammi | My wife neither Ammi's husband |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | I | Ammi's husband |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Ammi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put away** | infinitive | Ammi *not said here* | Ammi's harlotries and Ammi's adulteries from Ammi's breasts |  | Ammi's face |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent harlotry=Goal |

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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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רִ֤יבוּ בְאִמְּכֶם֙ רִ֔יבוּ כִּֽי־הִיא֙ לֹ֣א אִשְׁתִּ֔י וְאָנֹכִ֖י לֹ֣א אִישָׁ֑הּ וְתָסֵ֤ר זְנוּנֶ֙יהָ֙ מִפָּנֶ֔יהוְנַאֲפוּפֶ֖יהָ מִבֵּ֥ין שָׁדֶֽיהָ׃

[Hosea 2:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.4/)

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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:13` 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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