--- title: Hosea 12:5 (JPS 1917) — So he strove with an angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplic… · tree and pragmatics description: So he strove with an angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him; at Beth-el he would find him, and there he would speak with us; Who acts: LORD. 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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 (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:173 # text = So he strove with an angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him; at Beth-el he would find him, and there he would speak with us; 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 strove strive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 angel angel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 prevailed prevail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 supplication supplication NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 unto unto ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 Beth Beth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 23 el El PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 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** | past | LORD | | | | | with a angel | tree rules | | 2 | **prevail** | past | LORD *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **weep** | past | LORD | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | past | LORD *not said here* | supplication | | | | unto LORD | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset supplication=Product | | 5 | **find** | would | LORD | el | | Beth el | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at el=Asset | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | would | LORD | | | there | | with us | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with we=Co-Agent | 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} וָיָּ֤שַׂר אֶל־מַלְאָךְ֙ וַיֻּכָ֔ל בָּכָ֖ה וַיִּתְחַנֶּן־ל֑וֹ בֵּֽית־אֵל֙בֵּֽית־אֵל֙ יִמְצָאֶ֔נּוּ וְשָׁ֖ם יְדַבֵּ֥ר עִמָּֽנוּ׃ [Hosea 12:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.12.5/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:HOS:173` 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 12:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.172/) - next →: [Hosea 12:6 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.174/) - ↑ back to [Hosea 12:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.12.5/)