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title: Amos 6:12 (JPS 1917) — Doth one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall… · tree and pragmatics
description: Doth one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood; Who acts: one, ye. Amos 6:12 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 6:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2

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Doth one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;

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**Who acts:** one, ye · **What happens:** plow, turn · **To what, where:** justice, gall

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This is Amos 6:12 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 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 (one, ye), 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:AMO:107
# text = Doth one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;
1	Doth	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	plow	plow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
12	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	gall	gall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	righteousness	righteousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	wormwood	wormwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: ask
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed form=q, act=ask, indirect=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plow** | present · do-support | one |  |  | there |  | with oxen | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn** | present · perfect | ye | justice |  | gall |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent justice=Theme into gall=Trajectory |

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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 {#hebrew}

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הַיְרֻצ֤וּן בַּסֶּ֙לַע֙ סוּסִ֔ים אִֽם־יַחֲר֖וֹשׁ בַּבְּקָרִ֑ים כִּֽי־הֲפַכְתֶּ֤ם לְרֹאשׁ֙ מִשְׁפָּ֔ט וּפְרִ֥י צְדָקָ֖ה לְלַעֲנָֽה׃

[Amos 6:12: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.12/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. [Do horses run upon the rocks?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.106/)
2. **Doth one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;**

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:AMO:107` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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