--- title: Amos 8:13 (JPS 1917) — In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst. · tree and pragmatics description: In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst. Who acts: fair virgins. Amos 8:13 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.140/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Nevi'im](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/) / [Amos](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO/) / [chapter 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO/8/) / [8:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.8.13/) / JPS 1 # Amos 8:13 · JPS 1917 In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst. **Who acts:** fair virgins · **What happens:** faint This is Amos 8:13 · 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 (fair virgins), 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:140 # text = In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 4 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 virgins virgin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 12 faint faint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 thirst thirst NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | **faint** | shall | the fair virgins and the young men | | | | day | for thirst | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=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} בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא תִּ֠תְעַלַּפְנָה הַבְּתוּלֹ֧ת הַיָּפ֛וֹת וְהַבַּחוּרִ֖ים בַּצָּמָֽא׃ [Amos 8:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.8.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:AMO:140` 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 8:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.139/) - next →: [Amos 8:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.141/) - ↑ back to [Amos 8:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.8.13/)