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title: Hosea 4:14 (JPS 1917) — I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your… · tree and pragmatics
description: I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; for they themselves consort with lewd women, and they sacrifice with harlots; and the people that is without understanding is distraught. Who acts: I, daughters, people. Hosea 4:14 in JPS
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# Hosea 4:14 · JPS 1917

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I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; for they themselves consort with lewd women, and they sacrifice with harlots; and the people that is without understanding is distraught.

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**Who acts:** I, daughters, people · **What happens:** not punish, commit, consort, sacrifice, be · **To what, where:** daughters, harlotry, adultery

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This is Hosea 4:14 · 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, daughters, 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:53
# text = I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; for they themselves consort with lewd women, and they sacrifice with harlots; and the people that is without understanding is distraught.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	commit	commit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	harlotry	harlotry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	commit	commit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
22	adultery	adultery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	25	appos	_	_
27	consort	consort	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	lewd	lewd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	harlots	harlot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	without	without	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	distraught	distraught	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- 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 | **not** **punish** | future | I | your daughters nor your daughters in law |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **commit** | present | daughters *= daughter* | harlotry |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harlotry=Theme |
| 3 | **commit** | present | daughters *= daughter* | adultery |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adultery=Theme |
| 4 | **consort** | present | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  |  | with lewd women | tree rules |
| 5 | **sacrifice** | present | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  |  | with harlots | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | the people |  |  |  |  | without understanding | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | the people |  |  |  |  | distraught *property* | 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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לֹֽא־אֶפְק֨וֹד עַל־בְּנוֹתֵיכֶ֜ם כִּ֣י תִזְנֶ֗ינָה וְעַל־כַּלּֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ כִּ֣י תְנָאַ֔פְנָה כִּי־הֵם֙ עִם־הַזֹּנ֣וֹת יְפָרֵ֔דוּ וְעִם־הַקְּדֵשׁ֖וֹת יְזַבֵּ֑חוּ וְעָ֥ם לֹֽא־יָבִ֖ין יִלָּבֵֽט׃

[Hosea 4:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.14/)

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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:53` of Mova's parse database.

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