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title: Hosea 2:8 (JPS 1917) — Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will m… · tree and pragmatics
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# Hosea 2:8 · JPS 1917

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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will make a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.

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**Who acts:** I, mother · **What happens:** hedge up, make, not find · **To what, where:** way, wall, paths

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This is Hosea 2:8 · 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 (I, mother), 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:17
# text = Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will make a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	hedge	hedge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hedge up** | future | I | thy way |  |  |  | with thorns; therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | future | I | a wall |  |  |  | against mother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product |
| 3 | **not** **find** | shall | mother | mother's paths |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic |

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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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לָכֵ֛ן הִנְנִי־שָׂ֥ךְ אֶת־דַּרְכֵּ֖ךְ בַּסִּירִ֑ים וְגָֽדַרְתִּי֙ אֶת־גְּדֵרָ֔הּ וּנְתִיבוֹתֶ֖יהָ לֹ֥א תִמְצָֽא׃

[Hosea 2:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.8/)

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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:17` 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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