--- title: Hosea 4:1 (JPS 1917) — Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel! for the LORD hath… · tree and pragmatics description: Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel! for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. Who acts: you, LORD, truth. 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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 (you, LORD, truth), 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:40 # text = Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel! for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 1 Hear hear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 9 vocative _ _ 9 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 vocative _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 13 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hath have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 controversy controversy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 28 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 33 cc _ _ 33 mercy mercy NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 36 cc _ _ 36 knowledge knowledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | the word of the LORD | | | | children of Israel *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | present | the LORD | a controversy | | | | with the inhabitants of the land | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent controversy=Patient | | 3 | **does** | present | no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God | | | the land; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | | 4 | **word** | | | the LORD | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} שִׁמְע֥וּ דְבַר־יְהוָ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כִּ֣י רִ֤יב לַֽיהוָה֙ עִם־יוֹשְׁבֵ֣י הָאָ֔רֶץ כִּ֠י אֵין־אֱמֶ֧ת וְֽאֵין־חֶ֛סֶד וְאֵֽין־דַּ֥עַת אֱלֹהִ֖ים בָּאָֽרֶץ׃ [Hosea 4:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:HOS:40` 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 3:5 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.39/) - next →: [Hosea 4:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.41/) - ↑ back to [Hosea 4:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.1/)