Amos 8:12 · JPS 1917

And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

Who acts: famine · What happens: wander, run, seek, not find, word · To what, where: sea, word, land, LORD

This is Amos 8:12 · 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 (famine), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 wander	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wander	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wander	aux
4	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 sea	case
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wander	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 sea	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sea	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 north	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 north	cc
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 north	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 north	det
13	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sea	conj
14	even	even	ADV	_	17 east	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 east	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 east	det
17	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 north	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 run	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 run	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 run	aux
21	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wander	parataxis
22	to	to	ADV	_	21 run	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fro	cc
24	fro	fro	ADV	_	22 to	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 seek	mark
26	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 run	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 word	det
28	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seek	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 LORD	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 LORD	det
31	LORD	LORD	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 word	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 find	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 find	cc
34	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 find	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 find	advmod
36	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 run	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 find	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wander	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wander	shall	famine		sea to sea and the north to the east	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sea=Trajectory
2	run	shall	famine			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seek	to-infinitive	famine not said here	the word of the LORD		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
4	not find	shall	famine not said here	land		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	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

וְנָעוּ֙ מִיָּ֣ם עַד־יָ֔ם וּמִצָּפ֖וֹן וְעַד־מִזְרָ֑ח יְשֽׁוֹטְט֛וּ לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ אֶת־דְּבַר־יְהוָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א יִמְצָֽאוּ׃

Amos 8:12: 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:139 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.139/