---
title: Hosea 4:15 (JPS 1917) — Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah become guilt… · tree and pragmatics
description: Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah become guilty; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear: 'As the LORD liveth.' Who acts: thou, you, Judah, ye. Hosea 4:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.54/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Hosea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS/) / [chapter 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS/4/) / [4:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.15/) / JPS 1

# Hosea 4:15 · JPS 1917

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah become guilty; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear: 'As the LORD liveth.'

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** thou, you, Judah, ye, LORD · **What happens:** play, not let, become, not come, go up, swear · **To what, where:** harlot, Judah, Beth aven

<!-- .vabout -->
This is Hosea 4:15 · 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 (thou, you, Judah, ye), 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:54
# text = Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah become guilty; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear: 'As the LORD liveth.'
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	harlot	harlot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	Judah	Judah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
20	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
21	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Gilgal	Gilgal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	Beth	Beth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
31	aven	aven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	34	cc	_	_
34	swear	swear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
37	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	liveth	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	ccomp	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
42	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | thou | the harlot |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harlot=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | Judah |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | infinitive | Judah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | guilty *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **come** | infinitive | ye |  |  |  |  | unto Gilgal | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go up** | infinitive | ye |  | Beth aven |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **swear** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **live** | present | the LORD |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .vhe dir=rtl lang=hbo -->
אִם־זֹנֶ֤ה אַתָּה֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אַל־יֶאְשַׁ֖ם יְהוּדָ֑ה וְאַל־תָּבֹ֣אוּ הַגִּלְגָּ֗ל וְאַֽל־תַּעֲלוּ֙ בֵּ֣ית אָ֔וֶן בֵּ֣ית אָ֔וֶן וְאַל־תִּשָּׁבְע֖וּ חַי־יְהוָֽה׃

[Hosea 4:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.15/)

<!-- div src -->

**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:HOS:54` 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Hosea 4:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.53/)
- next →: [Hosea 4:16 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.55/)
- ↑ back to [Hosea 4:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.15/)