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title: Hosea 12:3 (JPS 1917) — The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob a… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways, according to his doings will He recompense him. Who acts: LORD. Hosea 12:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 12:3 · JPS 1917

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The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways, according to his doings will He recompense him.

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**Who acts:** LORD · **What happens:** have, punish, accord, recompense · **To what, where:** controversy, Jacob

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This is Hosea 12:3 · 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 (LORD), 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:171
# text = The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways, according to his doings will He recompense him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	controversy	controversy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	case	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	recompense	recompense	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | the LORD | a controversy |  |  |  | with Judah | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent controversy=Patient |
| 2 | **punish** | future | the LORD *not said here* | Jacob |  |  |  | accord Judah's ways | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jacob=Patient |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **recompense** | future | LORD |  | Jacob |  |  | accord Judah's doings | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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וְרִ֥יב לַֽיהוָ֖ה עִם־יְהוּדָ֑ה וְלִפְקֹ֤ד עַֽל־יַעֲקֹב֙ כִּדְרָכָ֔יו כְּמַעֲלָלָ֖יו יָשִׁ֥יב לֽוֹ׃

[Hosea 12:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.12.3/)

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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:171` 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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