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title: Hosea 9:16 (JPS 1917) — Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb. Who acts: birth, I. Hosea 9:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 9:16 · JPS 1917

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Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.

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**Who acts:** birth, I · **What happens:** smite, dry up, bear, bring, slay · **To what, where:** Ephraim, root, fruit, beloved fruit

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This is Hosea 9:16 · 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 (birth, 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:136
# text = Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.
1	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
17	yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
22	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | present · passive |  | Ephraim |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **dry up** | present · passive |  | birth's root |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **bear** | shall | birth | no fruit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 4 | **bring** | present | birth |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **slay** | future | I | the beloved fruit of birth's womb |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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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הֻכָּ֣ה אֶפְרַ֔יִם שָׁרְשָׁ֥ם יָבֵ֖שׁ פְּרִ֣י בַֽל־יַעֲשׂ֑וּן גַּ֚ם כִּ֣י יֵֽלֵד֔וּן וְהֵמַתִּ֖י מַחֲמַדֵּ֥י בִטְנָֽם׃ס

[Hosea 9:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.9.16/)

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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:136` 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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