Amos 7:14 · JPS 1917
Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah: 'I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a dresser of sycamore-trees;
Who acts: Amos, I · What happens: answer, say, be · To what, where: Amaziah, prophet, son, herdman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Amos 7:14 · 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 (Amos, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 answered | advmod |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Amos | Amos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 answered | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Amaziah | case |
| 8 | Amaziah | Amaziah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 prophet | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 prophet | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 prophet | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 prophet | cop |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 prophet | det |
| 14 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 son | punct |
| 16 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 son | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 son | cop |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 son | nsubj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 prophet | det |
| 20 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 prophet | case |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prophet | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 herdman | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 herdman | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 herdman | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 herdman | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 herdman | det |
| 28 | herdman | herdman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prophet | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 dresser | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 dresser | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 dresser | det |
| 32 | dresser | dresser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 herdman | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 trees | case |
| 34 | sycamore | sycamore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 trees | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 sycamore | punct |
| 36 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 dresser | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Amos | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Amos not said here | Amaziah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to amaziah=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | I | no prophet neither a prophet's son but a herdman and a dresser of sycamore trees | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | I | a prophet's son | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | I | a herdman and a dresser of sycamore trees | tree rules |
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
וַיַּ֤עַן עָמוֹס֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶל־אֲמַצְיָ֔ה לֹא־נָבִ֣יא אָנֹ֔כִי וְלֹ֥א בֶן־נָבִ֖יא אָנֹ֑כִי כִּֽי־בוֹקֵ֥ר אָנֹ֖כִי וּבוֹלֵ֥ס שִׁקְמִֽים׃
Amos 7:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:AMO:123 of Mova's parse database.
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