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title: Hosea 14:3 (JPS 1917) — Take with you words, and return unto the LORD; say unto Him: 'Forgiv… · tree and pragmatics
description: Take with you words, and return unto the LORD; say unto Him: 'Forgive all iniquity, and accept that which is good; so will we render for bullocks the offering of our lips. Who acts: you, we. Hosea 14:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 14:3 · JPS 1917

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Take with you words, and return unto the LORD; say unto Him: 'Forgive all iniquity, and accept that which is good; so will we render for bullocks the offering of our lips.

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** take, return, say, forgive, accept, be · **To what, where:** words, you, iniquity, offering, lips · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Hosea 14:3 · 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 (you, we), 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:206
# text = Take with you words, and return unto the LORD; say unto Him: 'Forgive all iniquity, and accept that which is good; so will we render for bullocks the offering of our lips.
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	iniquity	iniquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	accept	accept	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | words | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme word=Destination |
| 2 | **return** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unto the LORD | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unto God | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **forgive** | infinitive |  | all iniquity |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iniquity=Theme |
| 5 | **accept** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **render** | future | we | the offering of our lips |  |  |  | for bullocks | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Theme |
| 8 | **offer** |  |  | our lips |  |  |  |  | nom offering «communication transitive»: of=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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קְח֤וּ עִמָּכֶם֙ דְּבָרִ֔ים וְשׁ֖וּבוּ אֶל־יְהוָ֑ה אִמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֗יו כָּל־תִּשָּׂ֤א עָוֺן֙ וְקַח־ט֔וֹב וּֽנְשַׁלְּמָ֥ה פָרִ֖ים שְׂפָתֵֽינוּ׃

[Hosea 14:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.14.3/)

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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:206` 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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