--- title: Hosea 14:4 (JPS 1917) — Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will… · tree and pragmatics description: Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we call any more the work of our hands our gods; for in Thee the fatherless findeth mercy.' Who acts: Asshur, we, fatherless, hands. 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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 (Asshur, we, fatherless, hands), 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:207 # text = Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we call any more the work of our hands our gods; for in Thee the fatherless findeth mercy.' 1 Asshur Asshur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 11 upon upon ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 17 cc _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 18 any any ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 appos _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 obl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fatherless fatherless NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 findeth find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 34 mercy mercy NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 36 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: promise - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed form=decl, act=promise, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **save** | shall | Asshur | us | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 2 | **not** **ride** | future | we | | | | | upon horses | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | future | we | the work of our hands | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent work=Recipient | | 4 | **find** | present | the fatherless | mercy | | Thee | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Topic | | 5 | **work** | | our hands | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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} אַשּׁ֣וּר ׀ לֹ֣א יוֹשִׁיעֵ֗נוּ עַל־סוּס֙ לֹ֣א נִרְכָּ֔ב וְלֹא־נֹ֥אמַר ע֛וֹד אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ לְמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה יָדֵ֑ינוּ אֲשֶׁר־בְּךָ֖ יְרֻחַ֥ם יָתֽוֹם׃ [Hosea 14:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.14.4/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:HOS:207` 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 14:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.206/) - next →: [Hosea 14:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.208/) - ↑ back to [Hosea 14:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.14.4/)