Amos 5:19 · JPS 1917
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; and went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Who acts: man, bear, serpent · What happens: flee, meet, go, lean, bite · To what, where: man, house, hand, wall
This is Amos 5:19 · 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 (man, bear, serpent), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 flee | mark |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 flee | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flee | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flee | aux |
| 6 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 lion | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lion | det |
| 9 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flee | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 met | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 met | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bear | det |
| 13 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | nsubj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flee | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 met | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 met | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leaned | cc |
| 23 | leaned | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leaned | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 wall | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wall | det |
| 28 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leaned | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bit | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bit | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 serpent | det |
| 32 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bit | nsubj |
| 33 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 met | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 bit | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flee | punct |
Pragmatics
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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past · do-support | a man | from a lion | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lion=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | a bear | man | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | a bear not said here | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | lean | past | a bear not said here | man's hand | the wall | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on wall=Destination | |||
| 5 | bite | past | a serpent | man | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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
כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר יָנ֥וּס אִישׁ֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י הָאֲרִ֔י וּפְגָע֖וֹ הַדֹּ֑ב וּבָ֣א הַבַּ֔יִת וְסָמַ֤ךְ יָדוֹ֙ עַל־הַקִּ֔יר וּנְשָׁכ֖וֹ הַנָּחָֽשׁ׃
Amos 5:19: 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:85 of Mova's parse database.
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