Amos 8:5 · JPS 1917

Saying: 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth corn? making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances of deceit;

Who acts: new moon, we, deceit · What happens: say, be, sell, set, make, falsify · To what, where: grain, corn, ephah, balances · Speech: someone speaks here

This is Amos 8:5 · 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 (new moon, we, deceit), 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	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Saying	punct
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 sell	punct
4	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 gone	advmod
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moon	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 moon	amod
8	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	nsubj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 gone	cop
10	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sell	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sell	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 sell	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sell	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 sell	aux
15	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Saying	ccomp
16	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sell	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 sabbath	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sabbath	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sabbath	det
20	sabbath	sabbath	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sell	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 set	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 set	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 set	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 set	aux
25	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sabbath	advcl
26	forth	forth	ADV	_	25 set	advmod
27	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 set	obj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Saying	punct
29	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Saying	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ephah	det
31	ephah	ephah	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 making	obj
32	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 making	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 shekel	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 shekel	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shekel	det
36	shekel	shekel	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 great	nsubj
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 small	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 falsifying	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 falsifying	cc
40	falsifying	falsify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 making	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 balances	det
42	balances	balance	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 falsifying	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 deceit	case
44	deceit	deceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 balances	nmod
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Saying	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	future	the new moon		gone property	tree rules
3	sell	may	we	grain		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme
4	set	may	we	corn	forth property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient corn=Result
5	make	gerund		the ephah	small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ephah=Product
6	falsify	gerund		the balances of deceit		tree rules
7	balance		deceit			nom balance «state intransitive»: of=agent

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

לֵאמֹ֗ר מָתַ֞י יַעֲבֹ֤ר הַחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ וְנַשְׁבִּ֣ירָה שֶּׁ֔בֶר וְהַשַּׁבָּ֖ת וְנִפְתְּחָה־בָּ֑ר לְהַקְטִ֤ין אֵיפָה֙ וּלְהַגְדִּ֣יל שֶׁ֔קֶל וּלְעַוֵּ֖ת מֹאזְנֵ֥י מִרְמָֽה׃

Amos 8:5: 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:131 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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