Amos 2:9 · JPS 1917

Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

Who acts: I, height, God · What happens: destroy, be · To what, where: Amorite, fruit

This is Amos 2:9 · 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, height, God), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	2 destroyed	cc
2	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 destroyed	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Amorite	det
5	Amorite	amorite	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 destroyed	obj
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Amorite	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 height	punct
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 height	nmod:poss
10	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 height	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 height	cop
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 height	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 height	det
14	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Amorite	acl:relcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 cedars	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cedars	det
17	cedars	cedar	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 height	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 strong	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 strong	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 strong	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 strong	cop
22	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 destroyed	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 oaks	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 oaks	det
25	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 strong	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 destroyed	punct
27	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	29 destroyed	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 destroyed	nsubj
29	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 destroyed	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 fruit	nmod:poss
31	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 destroyed	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 above	case
33	above	above	ADV	_	29 destroyed	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 roots	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 roots	cc
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 roots	nmod:poss
37	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 destroyed	conj
38	from	from	ADP	_	39 beneath	case
39	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	37 roots	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 destroyed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: changed voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past	I	the Amorite	before man		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amorite=Patient
2	is	past	the height's height			like the height; of the cedars	tree rules
3	is	past	God			as the oaks; strong property	tree rules
4	destroy	past	I	God's fruit			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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

וְאָ֨נֹכִ֜י הִשְׁמַ֤דְתִּי אֶת־הָֽאֱמֹרִי֙ מִפְּנֵיהֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר כְּגֹ֤בַהּ אֲרָזִים֙ גָּבְה֔וֹ וְחָסֹ֥ן ה֖וּא כָּֽאַלּוֹנִ֑ים וָאַשְׁמִ֤יד פִּרְיוֹ֙ מִמַּ֔עַל וְשָׁרָשָׁ֖יו מִתָּֽחַת׃

Amos 2:9: 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:23 of Mova's parse database.

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