--- title: Hosea 6:4 (JPS 1917) — O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? · tree and pragmatics description: O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? Who acts: I. Hosea 6:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.77/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS/6/) / [6:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.6.4/) / JPS 1 # Hosea 6:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** do This is Hosea 6:4 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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), 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:77 # text = O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? 1 O o INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ 2 Ephraim Ephraim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 vocative _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 5 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 unto unto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 obl _ _ 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=ask, indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | shall | I | | | | | unto thee; Ephraim *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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} מָ֤ה אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־לְּךָ֙ אֶפְרַ֔יִם מָ֥ה אֶעֱשֶׂה־לְּךָ֖ יְהוּדָ֑ה וְחַסְדְּכֶם֙ כַּֽעֲנַן־בֹּ֔קֶר וְכַטַּ֖ל מַשְׁכִּ֥ים הֹלֵֽךְ׃ [Hosea 6:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.6.4/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. **O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee?** 2. [O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.78/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:HOS:77` 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 6:3 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.76/) - next →: [Hosea 6:4 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.78/) - ↑ back to [Hosea 6:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.6.4/)