--- title: Amos 6:14 (JPS 1917) — For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel… · tree and pragmatics description: For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath unto the Brook of the Arabah. Who acts: I, LORD, nations. 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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 (I, LORD, nations), 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:109 # text = For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath unto the Brook of the Arabah. 1 For for CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 behold behold INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 raise raise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 against against ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 O o INTJ UH _ 15 discourse _ _ 15 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 saith say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 afflict afflict VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 entrance entrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Hamath Hamath PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 unto unto ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Brook Brook PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Arabah Arabah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **raise up** | future | I | a nation | | | | against you | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nation=Theme against you=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the LORD | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **afflict** | shall | nations *= nation* | you | | the entrance of Hamath | | unto the Brook of the Arabah | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | 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} כִּ֡י הִנְנִי֩ מֵקִ֨ים עֲלֵיכֶ֜ם בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל נְאֻם־יְהוָ֛ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י הַצְּבָא֖וֹת גּ֑וֹי וְלָחֲצ֥וּ אֶתְכֶ֛ם מִלְּב֥וֹא חֲמָ֖ת עַד־נַ֥חַל הָעֲרָבָֽה׃ס [Amos 6:14: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.14/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:AMO:109` 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. - ← previous: [Amos 6:13 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.108/) - next →: [Amos 7:1 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.110/) - ↑ back to [Amos 6:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.14/)