Amos 5:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3
It is darkness, and not light.
Who acts: city · What happens: be · To what, where: darkness
This is Amos 5:18 · JPS 1917, sentence 3 of 3 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 (city), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 darkness | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 darkness | cop |
| 3 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 light | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 light | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 light | advmod |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 darkness | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 darkness | 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 | is a | present | city | darkness and light | tree rules |
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
ה֥וֹי הַמִּתְאַוִּ֖ים אֶת־י֣וֹם יְהוָ֑ה לָמָּה־זֶּ֥ה לָכֶ֛ם י֥וֹם יְהוָ֖ה הוּא־חֹ֥שֶׁךְ וְלֹא־אֽוֹר׃
Amos 5:18: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →
This verse in JPS 1917:
- Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD!
- Wherefore would ye have the day of the LORD?
- It is darkness, and not light.
Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:AMO:84 of Mova's parse database.
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