Amos 3:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Will a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where there is no lure for it?
Who acts: bird · What happens: fall · To what, where: snare
This is Amos 3:5 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2 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 (bird), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | aux |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 snare | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 snare | det |
| 7 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | obl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 earth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 earth | det |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 is | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 earth | acl:relcl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 lure | det |
| 16 | lure | lure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lure | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | future | a bird | a snare | upon the earth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in snare=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
הֲתִפֹּ֤ל צִפּוֹר֙ עַל־פַּ֣ח הָאָ֔רֶץ וּמוֹקֵ֖שׁ אֵ֣ין לָ֑הּ הֲיַֽעֲלֶה־פַּח֙ מִן־הָ֣אֲדָמָ֔ה וְלָכ֖וֹד לֹ֥א יִלְכּֽוֹד׃
Amos 3:5: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Will a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where there is no lure for it?
- Will a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:AMO:37 of Mova's parse database.
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