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title: Amos 8:7 (JPS 1917) — The LORD hath sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forge… · tree and pragmatics
description: The LORD hath sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their works. Who acts: LORD, I, shoes. Amos 8:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 8:7 · JPS 1917

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The LORD hath sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their works.

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**Who acts:** LORD, I, shoes · **What happens:** swear, not forget, pride, work · **To what, where:** any, Jacob

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This is Amos 8:7 · 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 (LORD, I, shoes), 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:133
# text = The LORD hath sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their works.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LORD	LORD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
16	any	any	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: promise
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** | present · perfect | the LORD |  |  |  |  | by the pride of Jacob | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **forget** | future | I | any |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pride** |  |  | Jacob |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **work** |  | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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נִשְׁבַּ֥ע יְהוָ֖ה בִּגְא֣וֹן יַעֲקֹ֑ב אִם־אֶשְׁכַּ֥ח לָנֶ֖צַח כָּל־מַעֲשֵׂיהֶֽם׃

[Amos 8:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.8.7/)

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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:133` 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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