Amos 9:9 · JPS 1917
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Who acts: I, least grain · What happens: command, sift, not fall · To what, where: house, corn, sieve, earth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is Amos 9:9 · 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 (I, least grain), 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 | For | for | CCONJ | _ | 7 command | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 For | punct |
| 3 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 7 command | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lo | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 command | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 command | aux |
| 7 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sift | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sift | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sift | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 sift | aux |
| 12 | sift | sift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 command | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sift | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Israel | case |
| 16 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 nations | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 nations | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 nations | det |
| 20 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sift | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sifted | punct |
| 22 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 23 as | fixed |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 sifted | mark |
| 24 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sifted | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sifted | aux:pass |
| 26 | sifted | sift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sift | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 sieve | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sieve | det |
| 29 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sifted | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fall | punct |
| 31 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 37 fall | cc |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 fall | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 fall | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 grain | det |
| 35 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 grain | amod |
| 36 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fall | nsubj |
| 37 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 command | conj |
| 38 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 earth | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 earth | det |
| 40 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fall | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 command | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | future | I | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sift | future | I | the house of Israel | among all nations | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | |||
| 3 | sift | present · passive | corn | a sieve | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not fall | shall | the least grain | the earth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location |
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
כִּֽי־הִנֵּ֤ה אָֽנֹכִי֙ מְצַוֶּ֔ה וַהֲנִע֥וֹתִי בְכָֽל־הַגּוֹיִ֖ם אֶת־בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר יִנּ֙וֹעַ֙ בַּכְּבָרָ֔ה וְלֹֽא־יִפּ֥וֹל צְר֖וֹר אָֽרֶץ׃
Amos 9:9: 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:151 of Mova's parse database.
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