Amos 3:6 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2
Shall the horn be blown in a city, and the people not tremble?
Who acts: people · What happens: blow, not tremble · To what, where: horn
This is Amos 3:6 · 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 (people), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | _ | 5 blown | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horn | det |
| 3 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 blown | aux:pass |
| 5 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blown | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tremble | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tremble | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tremble | nsubj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 tremble | advmod |
| 14 | tremble | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blown | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 blown | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=ask, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | shall · passive | the horn | in a city | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in city=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not tremble | present | the people | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
אִם־יִתָּקַ֤ע שׁוֹפָר֙ בְּעִ֔יר וְעָ֖ם לֹ֣א יֶחֱרָ֑דוּ אִם־תִּהְיֶ֤ה רָעָה֙ בְּעִ֔יר וַיהוָ֖ה לֹ֥א עָשָֽׂה׃
Amos 3:6: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Shall the horn be blown in a city, and the people not tremble?
- Shall evil befall a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:AMO:39 of Mova's parse database.
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