--- title: Hosea 2:9 (JPS 1917) — And she shall run after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them,… · tree and pragmatics description: And she shall run after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them, and she shall seek them, but shall not find them; then shall she say: 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.' Who acts: mother, I, wall. 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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 (mother, I, wall), 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:18 # text = And she shall run after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them, and she shall seek them, but shall not find them; then shall she say: 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.' 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 lovers lover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 overtake overtake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 32 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumType=Ord 42 amod _ _ 42 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 44 for for SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 45 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 48 advmod _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 better well ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 ccomp _ _ 49 with with ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 obl _ _ 51 than than SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 52 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 48 advcl _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 54 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | shall | mother | | | | after mother's lovers | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **overtake** | shall | mother | lovers *= lover* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **seek** | shall | mother | lovers *= lover* | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **not** **find** | shall | mother *not said here* | lovers *= lover* | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | mother | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **go** | future | I | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **return** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | to my first husband *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to husband=Result | | 8 | **is** | past | wall | | | | then | with me; well *property* | tree rules | 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} וְרִדְּפָ֤ה אֶת־מְאַהֲבֶ֙יהָ֙ וְלֹֽא־תַשִּׂ֣יג אֹתָ֔ם וּבִקְשָׁ֖תַם וְלֹ֣א תִמְצָ֑א וְאָמְרָ֗ה אֵלְכָ֤ה וְאָשׁ֙וּבָה֙ אֶל־אִישִׁ֣י הָֽרִאשׁ֔וֹן כִּ֣י ט֥וֹב לִ֛י אָ֖ז מֵעָֽתָּה׃ [Hosea 2:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.9/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:HOS:18` 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 2:8 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.17/) - next →: [Hosea 2:10 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.19/) - ↑ back to [Hosea 2:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.2.9/)