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title: Amos 8:8 (JPS 1917) — Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelle… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? Who acts: land, one. Amos 8:8 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Amos 8:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 of 2

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Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein?

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**Who acts:** land, one · **What happens:** not tremble, mourn, dwell

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This is Amos 8:8 · JPS 1917, sentence 1 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 (land, one), 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:134
# text = Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein?
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tremble	tremble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	mourn	mourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dwelleth	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- indirect: yes
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tremble** | shall | the land |  |  |  |  | for this | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mourn** | infinitive | every one |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **dwell** | present | every one |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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הַ֤עַל זֹאת֙ לֹֽא־תִרְגַּ֣ז הָאָ֔רֶץ וְאָבַ֖ל כָּל־יוֹשֵׁ֣ב בָּ֑הּ וְעָלְתָ֤ה כָאֹר֙ כֻּלָּ֔הּ וְנִגְרְשָׁ֥ה וְנִשְׁקְעָ֖ה כִּיא֥וֹר מִצְרָֽיִם׃ס

[Amos 8:8: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.8.8/)

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This verse in JPS 1917:

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1. **Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein?**
2. [Yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.135/)

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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:134` 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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