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title: Hosea 12:7 (JPS 1917) — Therefore turn thou to thy God; keep mercy and justice, and wait for… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore turn thou to thy God; keep mercy and justice, and wait for thy God continually. Who acts: thou. Hosea 12:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 12:7 · JPS 1917

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Therefore turn thou to thy God; keep mercy and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** turn, keep, wait · **To what, where:** God, mercy

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This is Hosea 12:7 · 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 (thou), 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:175
# text = Therefore turn thou to thy God; keep mercy and justice, and wait for thy God continually.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | infinitive | thou |  | thy God |  |  | therefore *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to god=Result |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | mercy and justice |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Theme |
| 3 | **wait** | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for thy God; continually *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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וְאַתָּ֖ה בֵּאלֹהֶ֣יךָ תָשׁ֑וּב חֶ֤סֶד וּמִשְׁפָּט֙ שְׁמֹ֔ר וְקַוֵּ֥ה אֶל־אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ תָּמִֽיד׃

[Hosea 12:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.12.7/)

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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:175` 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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