Amos 8:6 · JPS 1917
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the corn?'
Who acts: we · What happens: buy, sell · To what, where: poor, refuse
This is Amos 8:6 · 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 (we), 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 | That | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 buy | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 buy | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 buy | aux |
| 4 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 poor | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buy | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 silver | case |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buy | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 needy | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 needy | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 needy | det |
| 12 | needy | needy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buy | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 pair | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pair | det |
| 15 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 needy | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 shoes | case |
| 17 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pair | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sell | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sell | cc |
| 20 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 buy | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 refuse | det |
| 22 | refuse | refuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sell | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 corn | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 corn | det |
| 25 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 refuse | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 buy | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- other
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=other
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | may | we | the poor | for silver | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent poor=Theme for silver=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | sell | infinitive | we not said here | the refuse of the corn | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuse=Theme |
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
לִקְנ֤וֹת בַּכֶּ֙סֶף֙ דַּלִּ֔ים וְאֶבְי֖וֹן בַּעֲב֣וּר נַעֲלָ֑יִם וּמַפַּ֥ל בַּ֖ר נַשְׁבִּֽיר׃
Amos 8:6: 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:132 of Mova's parse database.
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