--- title: Hosea 12:2 (JPS 1917) — Ephraim striveth after wind, and followeth after the east wind; all… · tree and pragmatics description: Ephraim striveth after wind, and followeth after the east wind; all the day he multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt. Who acts: Ephraim, lies. 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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 (Ephraim, lies), 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:170 # text = Ephraim striveth after wind, and followeth after the east wind; all the day he multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt. 1 Ephraim Ephraim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 striveth strive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 after after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 followeth follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 east east ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 15 det:predet _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 multiplieth multiply VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 18 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 desolation desolation NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 covenant covenant NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Assyria Assyria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strive** | present | Ephraim | | | | after wind | | tree rules | | 2 | **follow** | present | Ephraim *not said here* | | | | after the east wind | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after wind=Theme | | 3 | **multiply** | present | Ephraim | lies and desolation | | | day | | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | lies *= lie* | a covenant | | | | with Assyria | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset covenant=Product | | 5 | **carry** | present · passive | | oil | | Egypt | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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} אֶפְרַ֜יִם רֹעֶ֥ה ר֙וּחַ֙ וְרֹדֵ֣ף קָדִ֔ים כָּל־הַיּ֕וֹם כָּזָ֥ב וָשֹׁ֖ד יַרְבֶּ֑ה וּבְרִית֙ עִם־אַשּׁ֣וּר יִכְרֹ֔תוּ וְשֶׁ֖מֶן לְמִצְרַ֥יִם יוּבָֽל׃ [Hosea 12:2: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.12.2/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:HOS:170` 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. - ← previous: [Hosea 12:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.169/) - next →: [Hosea 12:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.171/) - ↑ back to [Hosea 12:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.12.2/)