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title: Hosea 4:4 (JPS 1917) — Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest. Who acts: you, man, people. Hosea 4:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 4:4 · JPS 1917

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Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

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**Who acts:** you, man, people · **What happens:** let, strive, reprove, be · **To what, where:** man, people

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This is Hosea 4:4 · 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, man, people), 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:43
# text = Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	strive	strive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	reprove	reprove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	acl:relcl	_	_
20	strive	strive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | no man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **strive** | infinitive | no man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | any man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reprove** | infinitive | any man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | thy people | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **strive** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with the priest | 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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אַ֥ךְ אִ֛ישׁ אַל־יָרֵ֖ב וְאַל־יוֹכַ֣ח אִ֑ישׁ וְעַמְּךָ֖ כִּמְרִיבֵ֥י כֹהֵֽן׃

[Hosea 4:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.4/)

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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:43` 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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