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title: Hosea 14:9 (JPS 1917) — Ephraim shall say: 'What have I to do any more with idols?' As for M… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ephraim shall say: 'What have I to do any more with idols?' As for Me, I respond and look on him; I am like a leafy cypress-tree; from Me is thy fruit found. Who acts: Ephraim, I. Hosea 14:9 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 14:9 · JPS 1917

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Ephraim shall say: 'What have I to do any more with idols?' As for Me, I respond and look on him; I am like a leafy cypress-tree; from Me is thy fruit found.

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**Who acts:** Ephraim, I · **What happens:** say, have, do, respond, look, be · **To what, where:** fruit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Hosea 14:9 · 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 (Ephraim, 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:212
# text = Ephraim shall say: 'What have I to do any more with idols?' As for Me, I respond and look on him; I am like a leafy cypress-tree; from Me is thy fruit found.
1	Ephraim	Ephraim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	any	any	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	idols	idol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
17	As	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	respond	respond	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
29	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	cypress	cypress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
35	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
42	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | Ephraim |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with idols | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **respond** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  | as Me | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on Ephraim | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | like a leafy cypress tree | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | present |  | thy fruit |  |  |  | from Me | tree rules |
| 8 | **find** | participle |  | thy fruit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=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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אֶפְרַ֕יִם מַה־לִּ֥י ע֖וֹד לָֽעֲצַבִּ֑ים אֲנִ֧י עָנִ֣יתִי וַאֲשׁוּרֶ֗נּוּ אֲנִי֙ כִּבְר֣וֹשׁ רַֽעֲנָ֔ן מִמֶּ֖נִּי פֶּרְיְךָ֥ נִמְצָֽא׃

[Hosea 14:9: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.14.9/)

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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:212` 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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