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title: Hosea 12:11 (JPS 1917) — I have also spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied visions;… · tree and pragmatics
description: I have also spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes. Who acts: I. Hosea 12:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 12:11 · JPS 1917

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I have also spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** speak, multiply, use · **To what, where:** visions, similitudes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Hosea 12:11 · 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 (I), 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:180
# text = I have also spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	multiplied	multiply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
13	visions	vision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ministry	ministry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
25	similitudes	similitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | unto the prophets | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **multiply** | present · perfect | I | visions |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | present · perfect | I | similitudes |  |  |  | by the ministry of the prophets | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent similitude=Patient |

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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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וְדִבַּ֙רְתִּי֙ עַל־הַנְּבִיאִ֔ים וְאָנֹכִ֖י חָז֣וֹן הִרְבֵּ֑יתִי וּבְיַ֥ד הַנְּבִיאִ֖ים אֲדַמֶּֽה׃

[Hosea 12:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.12.11/)

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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:180` 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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