--- title: Amos 7:1 (JPS 1917) — Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and, behold, He formed locusts in the b… · tree and pragmatics description: Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and, behold, He formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. Who acts: Lord GOD, GOD, growth. 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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 (Lord GOD, GOD, growth), 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:110 # text = Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and, behold, He formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 GOD GOD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 behold behold INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 formed form VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 locusts locust NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 beginning beginning NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 shooting shooting NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 up up ADV RB _ 20 case _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 latter latter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 lo lo INTJ UH _ 35 discourse _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 latter latter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 growth growth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 36 after after ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 mowings mowing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past | the Lord GOD | | me | | | thus *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 2 | **form** | past | GOD | locusts | | | in the beginning of the shooting of the latter growth | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location locust=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | growth | the latter growth | | | after the king's mowings | | tree rules | | 4 | **begin** | | | the shooting of the latter growth | | | | | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **shoot** | | | the latter growth | | | | | nom shooting «act transitive»: of=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 {#hebrew} כֹּ֤ה הִרְאַ֙נִי֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה וְהִנֵּה֙ יוֹצֵ֣ר גֹּבַ֔י בִּתְחִלַּ֖ת עֲל֣וֹת הַלָּ֑קֶשׁ וְהִ֨נֵּה־לֶ֔קֶשׁ אַחַ֖ר גִּזֵּ֥י הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ [Amos 7:1: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.1/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:AMO:110` 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 6:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.109/) - next →: [Amos 7:2 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.111/) - ↑ back to [Amos 7:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.1/)