Amos 8:11 · JPS 1917
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.
Who acts: days, Lord GOD, I · What happens: come, say, send, word · To what, where: famine, land, LORD · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Amos 8:11 · 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 (days, Lord GOD, 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 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 5 come | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Behold | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 saith | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saith | punct |
| 7 | saith | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 GOD | det |
| 9 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 GOD | compound |
| 10 | GOD | GOD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saith | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 send | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 send | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 send | aux |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saith | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 famine | det |
| 17 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 send | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 send | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 famine | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 famine | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 famine | det |
| 24 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 famine | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 bread | case |
| 26 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 famine | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thirst | punct |
| 28 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 30 thirst | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 thirst | det |
| 30 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 famine | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thirst | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hearing | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 hearing | cc |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 hearing | case |
| 36 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 famine | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 words | det |
| 38 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 hearing | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 LORD | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 LORD | det |
| 41 | LORD | LORD | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 words | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saith | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- promise
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the days | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the Lord GOD | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | send | future | I | a famine and a famine of bread nor a thirst for water but hearing the words of the LORD | the land | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent famine=Theme in land=Destination | |||
| 4 | word | the LORD | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
הִנֵּ֣ה ׀ יָמִ֣ים בָּאִ֗ים נְאֻם֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה וְהִשְׁלַחְתִּ֥י רָעָ֖ב בָּאָ֑רֶץ לֹֽא־רָעָ֤ב לַלֶּ֙חֶם֙ וְלֹֽא־צָמָ֣א לַמַּ֔יִם כִּ֣י אִם־לִשְׁמֹ֔עַ אֵ֖ת דִּבְרֵ֥י יְהוָֽה׃
Amos 8:11: 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:138 of Mova's parse database.
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