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title: Hosea 12:1 (JPS 1917) — Ephraim compasseth Me about with lies, and the house of Israel with… · tree and pragmatics
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# Hosea 12:1 · JPS 1917

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Ephraim compasseth Me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; and Judah is yet wayward towards God, and towards the Holy One who is faithful.

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**Who acts:** Ephraim, Judah, Holy One · **What happens:** compass, be · **To what, where:** Me

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This is Hosea 12:1 · 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 (Ephraim, Judah, Holy One), 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:169
# text = Ephraim compasseth Me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; and Judah is yet wayward towards God, and towards the Holy One who is faithful.
1	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	compasseth	compass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RP	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	deceit	deceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	wayward	wayward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
21	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
28	One	One	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **compass** | present | Ephraim | Me |  |  |  | with lies; about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Judah |  |  |  | yet | towards God and the Holy One; wayward *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the Holy One |  |  |  |  | faithful *property* | tree rules |

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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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סְבָבֻ֤נִי בְכַ֙חַשׁ֙ אֶפְרַ֔יִם וּבְמִרְמָ֖ה בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וִֽיהוּדָ֗ה עֹ֥ד רָד֙ עִם־אֵ֔ל וְעִם־קְדוֹשִׁ֖ים נֶאֱמָֽן׃

[Hosea 12:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.12.1/)

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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:169` of Mova's parse database.

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