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title: Hosea 11:6 (JPS 1917) — And the sword shall fall upon his cities, and shall consume his bars… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the sword shall fall upon his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels. Who acts: sword. Hosea 11:6 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 11:6 · JPS 1917

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And the sword shall fall upon his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

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**Who acts:** sword · **What happens:** fall, consume, devour · **To what, where:** cities, bars

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This is Hosea 11:6 · 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 (sword), 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:159
# text = And the sword shall fall upon his cities, and shall consume his bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	consume	consume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	counsels	counsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | shall | the sword |  |  | sword's cities |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon city=Location |
| 2 | **consume** | shall | the sword *not said here* | sword's bars |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Asset |
| 3 | **devour** | infinitive | the sword *not said here* | bars *= bar* |  |  |  | because images's own counsels | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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וְחָלָ֥ה חֶ֙רֶב֙ בְּעָרָ֔יו וְכִלְּתָ֥ה בַדָּ֖יו וְאָכָ֑לָה מִֽמֹּעֲצ֖וֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

[Hosea 11:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.11.6/)

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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:159` 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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