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title: Hosea 3:3 (JPS 1917) — and I said unto her: 'Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days; thou… · tree and pragmatics
description: and I said unto her: 'Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife; nor will I be thine.' Who acts: I, Thou. Hosea 3:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 3:3 · JPS 1917

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and I said unto her: 'Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife; nor will I be thine.'

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**Who acts:** I, Thou · **What happens:** say, sit, not play, not be, be · **To what, where:** harlot, wife, thine · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Hosea 3:3 · 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 (I, Thou), 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:37
# text = and I said unto her: 'Thou shalt sit solitary for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife; nor will I be thine.'
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nsubj	_	_
9	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
11	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	nsubj	_	_
18	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	harlot	harlot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nsubj	_	_
26	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	38	cc	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
38	thine	thy	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
40	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  | unto woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sit** | shall | Thou |  |  |  | day | for me; solitary *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **play** | shall | thou | the harlot |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harlot=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | shall | thou | any man's wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | future | I | thine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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וָאֹמַ֣ר אֵלֶ֗יהָ יָמִ֤ים רַבִּים֙ תֵּ֣שְׁבִי לִ֔י לֹ֣א תִזְנִ֔י וְלֹ֥א תִֽהְיִ֖י לְאִ֑ישׁ וְגַם־אֲנִ֖י אֵלָֽיִךְ׃

[Hosea 3:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.3.3/)

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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:37` 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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