--- title: Hosea 10:12 (JPS 1917) — Sow to yourselves according to righteousness, reap according to merc… · tree and pragmatics description: Sow to yourselves according to righteousness, reap according to mercy, break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, till He come and cause righteousness to rain upon you. Who acts: you, ground, Judah, righteousness. 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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, ground, Judah, righteousness), 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:150 # text = Sow to yourselves according to righteousness, reap according to mercy, break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, till He come and cause righteousness to rain upon you. 1 Sow sow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 yourselves yourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 1 obl _ _ 4 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 case _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 4 fixed _ _ 6 righteousness righteousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 reap reap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 9 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 case _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 mercy mercy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 fallow fallow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 advcl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 till till SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 come come VERB VBP Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 33 righteousness righteousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 rain rain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 36 upon upon ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sow** | imperative | you *not said here* | | yourselves | | | accord righteousness | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **reap** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | accord mercy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **break up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your fallow ground | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | ground | time | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **seek** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the LORD | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | | 8 | **come** | present | Judah | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **cause** | infinitive | Judah *not said here* | righteousness | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **rain** | to-infinitive | righteousness *not said here* | | | | | upon you | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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} זִרְע֨וּ לָכֶ֤ם לִצְדָקָה֙ קִצְר֣וּ לְפִי־חֶ֔סֶד נִ֥ירוּ לָכֶ֖ם נִ֑יר וְעֵת֙ לִדְר֣וֹשׁ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה עַד־יָב֕וֹא וְיֹרֶ֥ה צֶ֖דֶק לָכֶֽם׃ [Hosea 10:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.10.12/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. 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