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title: Hosea 6:3 (JPS 1917) — And let us know, eagerly strive to know the LORD, His going forth is… · tree and pragmatics
description: And let us know, eagerly strive to know the LORD, His going forth is sure as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.' Who acts: you, us, He, latter rain. Hosea 6:3 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hosea 6:3 · JPS 1917

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And let us know, eagerly strive to know the LORD, His going forth is sure as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.'

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**Who acts:** you, us, He, latter rain · **What happens:** let, know, strive, go, be, come · **To what, where:** us, LORD, earth

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This is Hosea 6:3 · 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 (you, us, He, latter rain), 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:76
# text = And let us know, eagerly strive to know the LORD, His going forth is sure as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.'
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	strive	strive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	nsubj	_	_
15	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
26	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	watereth	water	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
41	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character, act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **strive** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | eagerly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the LORD |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | morning | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **come** | shall | He |  |  |  |  | unto us; as the rain; as the latter rain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **water** | present | the latter rain | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent earth=Destination |

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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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וְנֵדְעָ֣ה נִרְדְּפָ֗ה לָדַ֙עַת֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֔ה כְּשַׁ֖חַר נָכ֣וֹן מֽוֹצָא֑וֹ וְיָב֤וֹא כַגֶּ֙שֶׁם֙ לָ֔נוּ כְּמַלְק֖וֹשׁ י֥וֹרֶה אָֽרֶץ׃

[Hosea 6:3: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.6.3/)

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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:76` 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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