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title: Hosea 12:8 (JPS 1917) — As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand. · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand. Who acts: balances, deceit. Hosea 12:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 12:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand.

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**Who acts:** balances, deceit · **What happens:** be, balance · **To what, where:** hand

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This is Hosea 12:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (balances, deceit), 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:176
# text = As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trafficker	trafficker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	balances	balance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	deceit	deceit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is** | present | the balances of deceit |  |  | LORD's hand |  | as the trafficker | tree rules |
| 2 | **balance** |  | deceit |  |  |  |  |  | nom balance «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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כְּנַ֗עַן בְּיָד֛וֹ מֹאזְנֵ֥י מִרְמָ֖ה לַעֲשֹׁ֥ק אָהֵֽב׃

[Hosea 12:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.12.8/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand.**
2. [He loveth to oppress.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.177/)

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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:176` 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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